City of Los Angeles v. Aitken

The plaintiffs have appealed from that portion of a judgment which was rendered against them in a suit in eminent domain which imposes damages for condemnation of the littoral rights of the respondents in their separate parcels of land adjacent to Mono Lake.

One problem only is presented on this appeal. It is the question as to whether a municipality seeking to condemn the fee simple title to the littoral rights of adjacent land owners to maintain the natural level of a navigable, no'ntidal lake, the water of which is so impregnated with mineral salts and alkali as to render it unfit for…