Brown Derby Hollywood Corp. v. Hatton

In 1945, Elizabeth Haun 1 leased a building at 1610 North Vine Street in Los Angeles to defendant Joseph Hatton that he used as a restaurant. Elizabeth Haun also owned adjacent property to the north and east of this building that she leased to System Auto Parks as a parking lot. Shortly after defendant Hatton started his restaurant, he began using a strip of the land leased to System Auto Parks for the storage of garbage. This strip, approximately 5 feet by 48 feet, was adjacent to defendant Hatton’s building. System Auto Parks did not object to this practice and in 1947 erected four or five…