Earl v. Dutour
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Fred H. Taft, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLennon, J.
This appeal is from a decree quieting plaintiff’s title to a strip of land fifteen feet wide adjacent to the center line of lot 17 of the Hilliard Tract in the county of Los Angeles.
Plaintiff and defendant own, respectively, the easterly and westerly halves of lot 17, and the sole question in dispute is whether the center line of the lot forms the eastern or western boundary of the strip of land in suit. The answer to this question depends upon the construction to be placed upon the word “lot” in the deed by which was conveyed to defendants the “westerly one-hálf of lot seventeen (17) of the…
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