Johnson v. Ocean Shore Railroad Co.

Opinion

DEVINE, P. J.

This lawsuit consists of cross-actions to quiet title to a strip of land. The principal question is whether a grant “for railroad purposes” conveyed a fee simple or only an easement. In 1906, Burlington Beach Land Company deeded a lot in what is now the City of Pacifica to Ocean Shore Railway Company. (Appellant, successor, bears the less British name of Ocean Shore Railroad Company.)

The deed, written in handsome script by a scrivener, contains in the part which includes the grant itself, paragraphs which we denominate A, B, and C, for convenience in later discussion, but…