Given

This action was brought by the county of Inyo to have a certain street decreed a public highway and to remove and abate an obstruction thereon. As judgment went for plaintiff on the pleadings, a review of the same becomes necessary. Plaintiff alleged, in substance, that in December, 1900, one A. M. Given filed in the recorder’s office of Inyo County a plat of the Given Addition to the town of Big Pine, and that on said plat- certain streets, avenues, and alleys were delineated, including a street known as Washington Street; that subsequently Given sold lots in said addition to certain persons and that said Washington Street was dedicated by Given to the use of the public and particularly to certain purchasers named in the complaint; that thereafter in December, 1913, defendant Paul Given made on oral application to the board of supervisors, without any petition in writing, for an order vacating and abandoning certain of these streets and avenues delineated on said plat, including that portion of Washing-, ton Street north of the north line of Center Street. That to procure this order, it is alleged, defendant made certain false representations to the board of supervisors…