Mushroom Tunnel Farms, Inc. v. Friedeberg

Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment entered by the court sitting without a jury, in an action to quiet title to three railroad bridges.

Between 1900 and about 1945 the Yosemite Valley Railroad owned and operated an 80-mile railway between Merced and El Portal in Mariposa County. In the late 1920’s the construction of Exchequer Dam necessitated relocation of the *728railroad right of way and building of certain tunnels, trestles and bridges on the railroad’s fee, including the three bridges with which we are concerned.

Thereafter defendant Adolf Friedeberg, A1 Perlman and others formed a…