Davidson

Davidson v. Ellis

Good Law
1908 Cal. App. LEXIS 30·9 Cal. App. 145·98 P. 254
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaOctober 2, 1908Civ. No. 522.California779 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Allen, J.

Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment rendered against him and in defendants’ favor, based upon an order sustaining a demurrer to a complaint.

The complaint alleged the ownership by defendants in 1901 of certain premises, a part of which at that date were by them conveyed to plaintiff’s grantors, together with a perpetual right of way from a fixed point on the exterior boundary of the lands sold across the lands of defendants not so conveyed to a certain county road, which grant specified that the way “so granted to be thereafter and within a reasonable time definitely located by said grantee.” Plaintiff’s ownership in the dominant tenement is averred. It further appears that when said deed of plaintiff’s grantors was "executed, and at all times thereafter, there was an old road leading from the fixed terminus of the. right of way to said county road; that plaintiff’s grantors did not at any time while they owned the premises, nor did plaintiff until after 1904, definitely locate said right of way; that plaintiff has requested defendants to join in such definite location, which they refused to do; that plaintiff, before the filing of the complaint, definitely located said right of…

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