De Sanchez v. Grace Methodist Episcopal Church

Action of ejectment, begun March 11, 1886, for a parcel of land in the city of Los Angeles. Judgment was for plaintiff. Appellant contends that plaintiff never had title in the disputed premises; that if she did acquire such title yet it was lost by her conveyance thereof, or by adverse user; and lastly that it, the defendant, never ousted the plaintiff or had possession of the premises.

1. In April, 1872, the city council of Los Angeles passed an ordinance vacating portions of a highway in said city, commonly known as Messer’s lane (styled in the ordinance “old First street”) and establishing instead thereof a new street called First street. Plaintiff then owned a number of lots including those designated *297 as lots 23 and 24—the latter a fractional lot—in block 4 of the “Sanchez tract,” which lots and block abutted on the north side of Messer’s lane; the “Sanchez tract” extended thence northerly, having an area of fourteen, acres, intersected, by other streets, and bounded on the east by Alameda street. The land on the south side of Messer’s lane opposite plaintiff’s tract was owned by T. D. Mott and Albert Johnson. The new street established by said ordinance was laid out a…