Beverly Oil Co. v. City of Los Angeles

This is an - appeal from a judgment for the defendants in an action seeking declaratory relief and to enjoin the defendants from enforcing a zoning ordinance alleged to restrict and eventually terminate the plaintiff’s nonconforming use of land for oil production.

The plaintiff owns 111/6 acres of land bounded by San Vicente, Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards and West Third Street in Los Angeles. The first producing oil well on this property was drilled in 1908 and thereafter a total of ten or eleven oil wells were placed in production. In 1924 the property was annexed to the city as a part of…