Vale v. City of San Bernardino

This is an action in equity to compel the defendants to remove from a public park in the City of San Bernardino, commonly known as Pioneer Park, a log cabin with additions thereto. The material parts of the deed by which the land in question was acquired by the city read as follows:

“This Indenture, made the thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, between Thaddeus Amat, Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, an ecclesiastical corporation sole of the religious persuasión known as the Catholic, party of the first part, and the ‘Inhabitants of…