Los Angeles Cemetery Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles

C.—- This is an action to quiet the plaintiff’s title to a strip of land, forty feet wide and twelve hundred and thirty-six feet long, in the city of Los Angeles. The court below gave judgment for the defendant, from which, and from an order refusing a new trial, the plaintiff appeals. The facts found by the court are in substance as follows: On October 26, 1887, the plaintiff, a corporation, was the owner of a tract of land in the city of Los Angeles, which included the land in controversy, and on that day it filed for record a map of the tract, on which were delineated the usual plats and avenues of cemetery grounds, and along the southerly and westerly sides of which were left blank colored strips, forty feet in width, the one on the southerly side being now a portion of First street, and the one on the westerly side being the land in controversy. The map also showed that the only entrance to the cemetery was from the strip in controversy, and that the strip opened out at one end into First street, and at the other end into Broderick avenue, public streets of the city. About the time of the filing of this map, plaintiff planted along the easterly and inner line of the street in…