Gallentine v. Hickey

The defendants appeal from a decree quieting the plaintiff’s title to a lot of land in the principal business block in the town of Ojai, formerly known as Nordhoff, in Ventura County. The decree also required the removal of a wall built within the exterior boundaries of the plaintiff’s lot.

The dispute concerned a strip of land 1.67 feet wide along the division line between the lots of the plaintiff and the defendants. According to an old map these lots were near the middle of a block shown on the map to have a frontage of 472 feet, but by actual measurement it was only 470.33 feet long. Early…