Los Angeles Cemetery Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles

Citations

• 3 Cal. Unrep. 783
• 32 P. 240
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 994

Syllabus

<p>Dedication of Street—What Constitutes.—In an action to quiet title to a strip of land, it appeared that plaintiff company filed for record a map of its land, platted as a cemetery, on which map the strip in question, forty feet wide along the west side of the tract, was left blank, with an entrance indicated therefrom into the cemetery. Subsequently, in cutting the land up into cemetery lots, the company left another strip, twenty feet wide, adjoining the former strip, and the whole was known as “E. Avenue,” which was used by the public for three years without objection. Held, that the facts showed an intention to dedicate the strip to the public for street purposes.</p> <p>Dedication of Street—Acceptance.—User by the Public of a Strip of land as a street for four years is sufficient to show acceptance of a previous offer to dedicate the land for street purposes.1</p>