Los Angeles University v. Swarth
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of California. This is an appeal from an order granting a preliminary injunction.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of California. This is an appeal from an order granting a preliminary injunction. The suit was brought by tlie appellees to restrain tlie appellants from converting and using part of the campus of tlie Los Angeles University for the purpose of excavating, drilling, and digging into the land for oil, and from erecting, on and over the surface of the land, buildings and derricks, and from converting the campus into an oil field and a place for conducting an oil business, to the injury and damage of ilio land as a…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
It is contended by the appellant's: First. That by the third conditional clause of the deed of September 16, 1896, the title of the grantees to the land in question became absolute and free from all limitations and restrictions on January i, 1894, when the period for reversion therein provided had expired. Second. Assuming that the restriction contained in the first conditional clause of the deed continued as a limitation upon the use of the land, it is contended on the part of the appellants that the complainants cannot enforce the restriction in the absence of a showing that'they are the…
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