Childs

This is an action to compel the reconveyance of a parcel of real property in Los Angeles County based upon the alleged violation of certain building restrictions.

Plaintiffs on July 26, 1923, were the owners of a tract of land described as lot 73 of Montebello according to a map thereof duly recorded. On that date they executed and recorded a “Declaration of Establishment of Restrictions and Conditions”, which provided a general plan of improvement, and among other things that “Any residence erected upon any lot or subdivided portion of said tract shall be built so that the front wall thereof shall be not closer than thirty feet to the property line .fronting on any street, avenue, drive or boulevard. . . . Further, that a breach of any of the restrictions, provisions, conditions and covenants hereinbefore referred to shall cause the real property upon which said breach occurs to revert to said owners or their successors in interest as owners of the reversionary rights herein provided for, and the owners of such reversionary rights shall have the right of immediate reentry upon said real property in the event of any such breach, and as to each lot-owner in said tract the said…