City of Oakland v. Carpentier
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third Judicial District. The facts are stated in the opinion. The case was before this Court at the April Term, 1857, on appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, a report of which will be found in 13 Cal. 540. A trial was subsequently had in the lower Court, resulting in a judgment for the plaintiff, from which the present appeal is taken by defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Cope, J. and Norton, J. concurring.
By an act of the Legislature, passed May 4th, 1852, the town *663of Oakland was created a municipal corporation, the corporate powers being vested in a Board of Trustees, consisting of five members, to be elected on the second Monday of May of each year. By the third section of the act the Trustees were clothed with certain powers in relation to wharves, piers, and docks; and with a view to facilitate the construction of wharves and other improvements, the town was invested with the title to lands within the corporate limits lying between high tide and the ship…
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