Loma Vista Inv., Inc. v. ROMAN CATH. ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment of nonsuit in a suit to quiet title to an alleged prior easement of a portion of Hill Street 1 in the county of Los Angeles, and for declaratory relief.

Augustin Machado, at the time of his death in 1865, owned an undivided one-fourth interest in Eancho La Ballona in the county of Los Angeles which he devised half to his wife, Eamona Machado, and half to his 13 children in equal shares. In 1868 the entire rancho was partitioned and a portion was allotted to Eamona and the 13 children. In 1876, at the suit of Eamona, the portion theretofore…