Youngstown Steel Products Co. v. City of Los Angeles

This action was brought to compel the defendants to raise certain power lines and to obtain a declaration of the rights of the parties under an instrument granting to the city the right to maintain the wires above plaintiff’s land. The grant gives the city a right of way across the land “with the right to erect and maintain poles with all necessary wires and fixtures thereon, and to keep same free from foliage . . . [and to] have access to said right of way . . . for purposes of repairs. ...” The instrument is printed save for the phrase “for aerial only,” which appears in handwriting near…