Garetson v. Hester

Action to terminate a lease. The property involved in this lease is 12.33 acres of land located on Camp Kearney Mesa, in San Diego County, just across the main highway which proceeds past the United States Marine Camp known as Camp Elliott. Plaintiff and respondent acquired the property in 1917, and has owned it continuously since that date. During all these years, up until the execution of the lease here involved, the property was brush land and had never been leased for any purpose. In 1936, the United States Marine Corps used a small parcel of land across the highway from the particular…