Fobbs v. Smith

Plaintiffs and defendants are owners of adjoining and contiguous parcels of residential realty located on the north side of 49th Street in the City of Los Angeles. Plaintiffs’ parcel is to the west of defendants’ property.*

In 1923, a common grantor of both parcels by duly recorded deed created and reserved reciprocal easements for use as a common driveway for the benefit of the predecessors in title of the parties to this action. The easements covered the west four feet of the south fifty feet of defendants’ parcel and the east four feet of the south fifty of plaintiffs’ parcel.

Plaintiffs…