Cooper v. Selig

This action is in ejectment to recover possession, together with the damages for use, of a strip of land which was formerly a part of a public street in the city of Los Angeles. The evidence fails to show any interest in the property on the part of T. A. Davis, and we shall, therefore, in the opinion, refer to Mary Cooper as the only plaintiff and appellant. According to the statement of her counsel, she claims relief “under the principle of law that the adjoining owner of realty owns the fee to the center of a street, subject only to the easement for street purposes, and upon the abandonment…