Bigelow v. City of Los Angeles
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an. order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, C.—
Plaintiff owns a lot of land in the city of Los Angeles, said lot being about one hundred and fifty-five feet north and south and one hundred and five feet east and west, and bounded on the north by the plaza, on the east by Negro Alley, and on the west by an alley ten feet wide, running along the westerly line of Engine House No. 38. In 1887 the defendant city commenced an action against the plaintiff herein, Mrs. Bigelow, to condemn a right of way over and covering the greater portion of this property for the extension of Los Angeles Street north to the plaza. While said action was…
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