Lincoln Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Riviera Estates Ass'n

Opinion

STEPHENS, J.

Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment in a declatory relief action. The subject of the action is a narrow strip of property (hereafter termed the driveway or the subject property) in lot 56 of the Riviera, an expensive single family residential area of 150 homes in the City of Los Angeles. Each home site in the tract has a frontage of 100 feet or more. With the exception of four vacant lots, the home sites have a middle value of $130,00.0 while some have a value as high as $200,000. The home owners in that tract are the members of the Riviera Estates Association, a…