Hart v. Merchants Trust Co.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment entered by the trial court in an action brought to terminate a trust and to quiet title to certain real property.

The land consisted of a tract known as Oceana Beach bordering upon the Pacific Ocean. In 1905 plaintiffs’ predecessors in interest conveyed the property to defendant Merchants Trust Company, in what may be termed a subdivision trust. In the same year a map of the tract was filed by the trustee and thereafter portions of the tract were sold. In 1926, after the purposes of the trust had been accomplished, plaintiffs brought this action.…