Antoinette Bornholdt v. Southern Pacific Company, a Corporation

KOELSCH, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity action removed from the Superior Court of Contra Costa County, California to the Federal District Court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332. 1 Jurisdiction of the appeal is based on 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291, 1294(1).

Plaintiffs, heirs of the original owners of certain real property in the Walnut Creek area of California, seek declaratory relief quieting title against defendant Southern Pacific Company to all or a portion of the property at issue. In the alternative, plaintiffs ask damages for an alleged inverse condemnation.

Uncontroverted evidence adduced at trial…