Edmonds v. County of Los Angeles

Plaintiffs sought a declaration of their claimed right under a zoning ordinance to maintain a trailer court as a nonconforming use of their residentially zoned property. The trial court held that they were entitled to continue with their operation of a trailer court to the extent of 20 trailers, and from the portion of the judgment so declaring, defendants appeal. It is defendants’ contention that plaintiffs’ right to make any use of their property for trailer court purposes no longer exists as the result of the parties’ agreement limiting such use to a three-year period, which has long since…