Coen

This is an action brought against the City of Los Angeles by a sublessee of certain tide-lands owned by the City at Los Angeles harbor. In the case of People v. Banning Co., 166 Cal. 635 [ 138 Pac. 101 ], in volving these same and other tide-lands, it was determined that the title was vested in the Banning Company, subject to the right of the public to use the land for purposes in aid of or in connection with navigation or fishery when at any time they might be so required. On the twenty-fourth day of July, 1917, the City of Los Angeles and the Banning Company and Hancock Banning entered into an agreement, which provided for the conveyance in fee by the Banning Company to the city of all its title to the lands in question. These tide and submerged lands are known as Mormon Island, and are a portion of Tideland Location 152. In return therefor the city gave to the company a thirty-year lease to all of the land lying behind a- line 204 feet shoreward from and parallel to the pierhead line. The leased land was called Parcel No. 1. The 204-foot strip along the waterfront was divided into several parcels, but the only portion of it involved in this action is Parcel No. 5. The 1917…