Fletcher

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment entered in an action involving an easement for driveway purposes across the end of defendants’ lot. The controversy arose out of the following facts which are not disputed: Defendants were the owners of two adjoining, residential lots in Los Angeles, to wit: Lots 179 and 171 in tract 5832. As shown by the maps which are made part of the record herein, the block in which said lots were laid out was bounded on the east by St. George Street, which extended in a northerly direction along the easterly ends of lots 176, 177 and 178, and for a few feet along the easterly end of lot 179, turning thence easterly and extending along the easterly boundary of lot 14, which was triangular in shape and lay between St. George Street and the easterly end of lots 179 and 171, thereby cutting off lots 179 and 171 from access to St. George Street, except for' a few feet of lot 179 bordering thereon. In April, 1925, defendants sold and conveyed by grant deed to plaintiffs lot 171, which ran back to and abutted on another street, named Monon Street, but in order to give plaintiffs access also to St. George Street defendants conveyed to them by the same…