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JOHNSON v. OCEAN SHORE RAILROAD CO.

Docket No. 27717.

16 Cal.App.3d 429 (1971)

94 Cal. Rptr. 68

AXEL V. JOHNSON et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Respondents, v. OCEAN SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

March 31, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Vernon W. Humber for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn and David C. Carr for Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

DEVINE, P.J.

This lawsuit consists of cross-actions to quiet title to a strip of land. The principal question is whether a grant "for railroad purposes" conveyed a fee simple or only an easement. In 1906, Burlington Beach Land Company deeded a lot in what is now the City of Pacifica to Ocean Shore Railway Company. (Appellant, successor, bears the less British name of Ocean Shore Railroad Company.)

The deed, written...

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