Trask

From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action brought to obtain declaratory relief the defendant has appealed.

In 1923 the defendant was the owner of a lot on the west side of South Spring Street in Los Angeles. She entered into a ninety-nine year lease. The lease was assigned to the plaintiff. As lessee the plaintiff erected a twelve-story steel frame class “A” building on the lot. The building is known as the California Bank Building. In 1930 the plaintiff purchased the lot on the north and commenced to erect another building of the same type but which is more modern and of a more perfect structure than the bank building. The building was so constructed that in many respects it is a counterpart of the bank building. At least in part the levels of the floors and the location and size of the corridors coincide if the same are extended. Some of the plaintiff’s tenants have demanded additional space. To meet those demands it has become advisable for the plaintiff to cut doors through some of the walls so that the tenants making such demands can be given the additional space. The openings, if made, will be cut through the fillers but not through nor into the supports of the…