Lanterman

This action was brought to obtain partition of the rancho “ La Canada,” situated in Los Angeles County. The plaintiff, in his complaint, after alleging that he and the defendant, A. W. Williams, are each the owner of an undivided one-half of the rancho, by virtue of a conveyance made to them by A. Glassell and A. B. Chapman, in December, 1877, proceeds, and alleges that on the 16th of December, 1875, plaintiff and Will *61 iams entered into the possession of the property under a contract previously made by them with Glassoll and Chapman for its purchase, and that shortly after their entry thereon they “ agreed upon a partition thereof in manner following, to wit: That a line, or avenue, should be run as nearly as might be through the center of said rancho, from the easterly to the westerly ends thereof, and other lines were to run from the northerly to the southerly boundaries of said rancho, as nearly as might be, parallel with the east and west section lines of the United States surveys, extending over, or produced so as to extend across said rancho ; said parallel lines to be 80 rods apart, measured along the township or section lines running through said rancho from cast to…