Andrews
Andrews v. Wheeler
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Shaw, J.
Plaintiff appealsappeals upon bill of exceptions from a judgment in favor of defendants and cross-complainants.
An opinion reversing the decision of the trial court was filed on October 24, 1908. Thereafter, upon petition of respondents, a rehearing was granted.
In form the action is one to quiet title. The controversy grows out of conflicting claims as to the true location of the division line between subdivision A, lot 6, in block 26, of the Canal and Reservoir Lands of the city of Los Angeles, as designated upon a map thereof made by William Moore in 1870, recorded in book 2, Miscellaneous Records, pages 210, 211, which subdivision is owned by plaintiff, and a tract of land lying immediately north thereof and adjoining, designated on said map as division A, lot 3, of said block 26, all of which, so far as it affects this case, is owned by defendants. These divisions A of said lots 6 and 3 of block 26, as designated upon the Moore map, extend from the south line of First street to the north line of Sixth street in the city of Los Angeles, and the land in dispute consists of a strip about sixteen feet in width, depending as to its ownership upon the ascertainment of the true…