Legal Opinion
City of Oakland v. El Dorado Terminal Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 6, 1940No. Civ. No. 11202PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWard, J.
This proceeding in quo warranto is to determine the right of defendant El Dorado Terminal Company, a subsidiary of El Dorado Oil Works, to maintain a public wharf on its privately owned submerged lands in Oakland estuary, and to collect tolls from persons availing themselves of the facilities of the wharf, without a franchise from the Board of Port Commissioners of the City of Oakland. The action was tried upon an agreed statement of facts after the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint, and the plaintiff’s demurrer to the answer, had been overruled. From a judgment in favor of the City of…
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