Larkey

This action was instituted to quiet title to lot 22 of block 21 of the Arlington Heights Tract, according to the official map of said tract of record in the office of the county recorder of the county of Los Angeles, and to a strip of land six feet in width and 142 feet in length, lying immediately north of and parallel to said lot 22. The defendant, the city of Los Angeles, concedes that plaintiff is the owner of said lot 22, but asserts that said six-foot strip is part of a public alley and that defendant has an easement in and over the same for highway purposes.

On. May 19, 1887, and for some time prior thereto T. Weisendanger and others were the owners of a tract of land lying westerly of the city of Los Angeles, which they subdivided into lots and blocks under the name of the Arlington Heights Tract. They made a map of this tract and filed the same of record in the office of the county of Los Angeles, being the county in which the land was situated. This tract was bounded on the north by Washington Street and blocks 20, 21, and 22 of said tract front on said street. Block 20, the most easterly of the three blocks, is bounded on the east by First Avenue, now known as…