Firth v. Los Angeles Pacific Land Co.
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and from an order denying a new trial. J. P. Wood, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJames, J.
In the year 1907 appellant, on the payment of a sum in excess of thirteen thousand dollars to the plaintiff, received from the plaintiff a deed of conveyance of certain land in what was called the Oxford Square Tract. The deed in part had the usual form of a grant in fee, but contained also a statement of certain conditions. Among other things it was in the deed provided: “That the said strip of land is so conveyed as and for a right of way for an electric railroad, and shall be devoted to no other purpose or purposes; that a line of double-track electric railroad extending from said tract of…
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