Booth

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment declaring title to certain property to be vested in defendant County of Los Angeles subject to an easement for street purposes in favor of the city of Compton and refusing to quiet the title of plaintiff as prayed.

There is little dispute of fact and a general statement of the conditions existing, with reference to the title to the property involved, will suffice.

On June 27, 1884, one Harshman was the owner of the property. On said date Harshman made, executed and delivered to respondent County of Los Angeles his deed conveying to said county the property. The said deed, after describing the property, contained the following clause:

Immediately subsequent to the execution and delivery of said deed the County of Los Angeles used the premises as a road and continued said use until 1888, at which time the city of Compton was incorporated. It might here be noted that the lands here involved were at all times within the territory embraced by the city of Compton, though said city was not incorporated until the time mentioned. The land being within the corporate limits of the city it was used thereafter as a street and was continuously…