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-2 <br />inconsistent with a use for park purposes. Under the <br />well -settled principle of law generally applicable, if <br />the city were undertaking to establish in Adams Park a <br />city hall, fire engine station, hospital, or ,jail, <br />endeavoring to devote the property to the erection of <br />municipal buildings or offices for use in the transaction <br />of public business, we would have little hesitancy in <br />saying that such purposes would be entirely inconsistent <br />with the use of the propert,- for pari: purposes." <br />This case also points out that the rule is more <br />strict and the use more narrowly limited where the dedi- <br />cation is by private individuals than where the land is <br />acquired by public purchase. <br />We now come to your question of the effect of <br />a suit to quiet the title against the owner of the <br />reversionary interest under said deeds. The most that <br />could be accomplished thereby would be to remove the <br />conditions subsequent and would leave unaffected the <br />public trust under which the city holds title and which <br />became fixed upon its acceptance of the deeds. <br />"The property dedicated has become public pro- <br />perty, impressed with the use for which it is dedicated, <br />and neither can the public divert it from that use, nor <br />can it be lost by adverse possession. Nor is the effect <br />of such dedication impaired by any delay in the use of the <br />land for which it was set apart". Archer vs Salll.nas, 93 <br />Cal. 43. <br />Furthermore an action to quiet title by the city <br />against its grantor who imposed conditions will not lie. <br />See Strong; vs Shatto, 45 Cal. App. 29. <br />It is only where there is suit to enforce or <br />enjoin breach that owner may invoke aid of equity. 201 Cal <br />530. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />ALAMEDA COUNTY `l'ITLE INSURANCE C01', PANY <br />BY: - <br />LA. bourne. <br />