Southern Pac. R.R. v. Raymond
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, San Francisco. The defendants demurred, and the demurrer having been sustained, the plaintiff appealed. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court :
The plaintiff is a railroad corporation, and seeks in this proceeding to condemn certain -lands of the defendants, as a site whereon “ to erect and maintain permanent and suitable build*227ings for work-shops, for repairing the cars and locomotives of plaintiff, and for safely keeping its cars and locomotives.” The defendants contest the right of the plaintiff to condemn the land, on the ground that the use to which the land is to be applied is not a public use, within the purview of the statute defining the conditions on which a railroad corporation may invoke the exercise of the…
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