Swarzwald v. Cooley

The record shows an action by plaintiffs Swarzwald and a cross-action by defendant Cooley, both in form to quiet title and to locate the oceanward extremity of a common boundary line. The bank and the other defendants are only nominally interested in the result of this litigation, the former being the trustee and the latter beneficiaries under a real estate subdivision trust, of which the lands in question are a part.

The controlling question is the true location of the common point in the line of ordinary high tide, or mean high tidé, of the Pacific Ocean, which, in May and June, 1927, marked…