Laguna Beach v. Consolidated Mortgage Co.

This is an action to quiet title to an easement and right of way for public street purposes over and upon a strip of land 14 feet wide running along the ocean front in the city of Laguna Beach. This strip is entirely covered by a wooden sidewalk or boardwalk. The entire boardwalk along this ocean front is several blocks in length but the only portion involved in this action is that within the block lying between Ocean Avenue on the north and Laguna Avenue on the south.

This block consists of fifteen lots owned by the various defendants. As originally platted the lots faced east on El Paseo…