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BEVERLY OIL CO. v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. L.A. 21977.

40 Cal.2d 552 (1953)

254 P.2d 865

BEVERLY OIL COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 27, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Cryer and R. Alston Jones for Appellant.

Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney, Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, and Alan G. Campbell, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondents.

SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendants in an action seeking declaratory relief and to enjoin the defendants from enforcing a zoning ordinance alleged to restrict and eventually terminate the plaintiff's nonconforming use of land for oil production.

The plaintiff owns 11 1/6 acres of land bounded by San Vicente, Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards and West Third Street in Los Angeles. The first producing oil well on this property was drilled...

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