Muchenberger v. City of Santa Monica

Respondents, as citizens of the state of California, and as residents and citizens of the City of Santa Monica, claiming to act in their own behalf and on behalf of others similarly situated, instituted an action in equity against the City of Santa Monica, a municipal corporation, and its officers, and against the Santa Monica Land Company, a corporation, to compel the city, as trustee, to perform the terms of the trust contained in the “Act granting certain tide-lands and' submerged lands of the State of California to the City of Santa Monica upon certain trusts and conditions,” approved…