Reynolds v. Presidio & Ferries Railroad

The court sustained defendant’s demurrer to the amended complaint, and thereupon judgment was entered for defendant. Plaintiff prosecutes this appeal from the judgment, and contends that the demurrer was improperly sustained.

The complaint alleges that plaintiff is the owner of a lot sixty feet in depth fronting forty-two feet on the southerly line of Union Street, between Hyde and Larkin streets, in the city of San Francisco; that the franchise of defendant required it to construct and operate its cable railway as nearly as possible in the center of the street, but that, in violation of its…