Hooker v. Los Angeles
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. ' This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of California to review a judgment of that court affirming the judgment of the Superior Court of the county of Los Angeles, California, in favor of the city of Los Angeles, and against Hooker and Pomeroy.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. ' This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of California to review a judgment of that court affirming the judgment of the Superior Court of the county of Los Angeles, California, in favor of the city of Los Angeles, and against Hooker and Pomeroy. The city brought suit against Hooker and Pome-roy ¿ to condemn all their “ estate, right, title, and interest,” in and to certain tracts of land, described in the complaint, for the purpose of enabling the city “to construct and maintain thereon the ‘ headworks ’ of its…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
"We cannot find in the pleadings or other proceedings in the trial court, or in the Supreme Court, that any statute of California was asserted to be in conflict with, the Constitution, or any law or treaty of the United States,, or that any right was claimed by plaintiffs in error under the Constitution, or any treaty or statute, of the United States.
The city alleged in its complaint that the Los Angeles River was a non-navigable stream, rising a few miles to the north and northwest of the city, and fed by streams rising to the surface in or near the bed of the river; that that bed was…
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