Koppikus v. State Capitol Comm'rs
California Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Sixth District Judge. Proceedings to condemn, for the use of the State, certain lots of ground, under the Act of March 29th, 1860, to provide for the construction of the State Capitol in the city of Sacramento. The proceedings were commenced by a petition, as follows : Notice to Property Owners.
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Writ of Error to the Sixth District Judge. Proceedings to condemn, for the use of the State, certain lots of ground, under the Act of March 29th, 1860, to provide for the construction of the State Capitol in the city of Sacramento. The proceedings were commenced by a petition, as follows : Notice to Property Owners. “To the Hon. John H. McKune, District Judge for the Sixth Judicial District, county of Sacramento, State of California—John G. Downey, Acting Governor; Johnson Price, Secretary of State; Thomas Findley, State Treasurer; A. C. Monsoii and Alfred Redington, by Thomas H. Williams,…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Baldwin, J. and Cope, J. concurring.
The plaintiff in error bases his objections to the action of the District Judge upon the alleged unconstitutionality of the Act of March 29 th, 1860, providing for the construction of the State Capitol in the city of Sacramento, and the alleged error of the Judge, in his refusal to set aside the award of the Commissioners, fixing the compensation to be made to the plaintiff, as owner of a parcel of the land intended for the site of the capítol.
*2531. The unconstitutionality of the act is asserted on two grounds: first, that it creates an indebtedness or…
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