Oakland Water Front Co. v. Le Roy

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

In an action in trespass committed in 1916, tried by the court, the Le Roys, plaintiffs below, recovered judgment for $20,000 damages against the Oakland Water Front Company. The land involved is known as tract 27 of the Alameda marsh land in Alameda estuary, California. As the water front -company was clearly guilty, the issue was the damage done to the lot.

It is gathered from the record that some years ago the parties to this litigation and others were tenants in common of a large tract, but by partition suit the acre involved in this action was set aside to the Le Roys,…