Agmar
Agmar v. Solomon
Opinion
lead Opinion
Campbell, J.
Plaintiffs brought an action in ejectment to recover possession of a lot of land having a frontage of twenty-five feet and six inches on Washington Street, San Francisco. The defendants filed an answer denying the material allegations of the complaint and by way of cross-complaint defendants Aaron Solomon and Hazel Solomon, his wife, prayed the court for a decree quieting their title to a strip of land four and one-half inches wide by 102 feet in depth, and it is the ownership of this strip of land that is in dispute. The remaining defendants have no interest in the land, being only tenants of defendants Aaron Solomon and Hazel Solomon.
It is conceded that the plaintiffs established the record title to the whole of the lot of land" described in the complaint, including the land in- dispute, to be in themselves, such title antedating the acquirement by Koenig—grantor of defendants Aaron Solomon and Hazel Solomon—of the land adjoining on the west the land of plaintiffs, and that such record title continued in plaintiffs up to and including the rendition of judgment herein. Koenig after acquiring title to the lot of land adjoining plaintiffs on the west, which record title did not…