California Pacific R.R. v. Armstrong
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, County of Solano. The plaintiff was a corporation organized to construct a railroad from the Straits of Carquinez, below Vallejo, in the County of Solano, to Sacramento and Marysville.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, County of Solano. The plaintiff was a corporation organized to construct a railroad from the Straits of Carquinez, below Vallejo, in the County of Solano, to Sacramento and Marysville. In 1868 the plaintiff commenced proceedings to condemn land for its track in Solano County, in which a large number of land owners were defendants, and among the number, John and Aphonia Adamson, the then owners of the tract of land belonging to the defendant when the present proceedings were commenced. For some reason, the Adamsons were not…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
This is a proceeding to condemn land for railroad purposes; and it appears in the case that, in the year 1868, the plaintiffs commenced a similar proceeding, for the purpose of condemning the particular tract in contest here and other lands, and obtained an order of Court allowing them to enter upon and retain the possession of said tract pending the proceedings, and duly filed a bond as required by the statute in such cases. It further appears that before the hearing in the present proceeding the former proceeding was dismissed as to this tract, and that “before…
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