Legal Opinion
City of Los Angeles v. Borax Consolidated
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1939No. 8822PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
This is a second appeal in an action brought by the City of Los Angeles as owner of the tide lands in the Inner Bay of San Pedro by grant from the State of California, to quiet title to that portion of Mormon Island in said harbor lying below the level of mean high tide.
Mormon Island was granted to William Banning by patent of the United States in 1881. The boundary lines in the patent of the Island were fixed according to a survey made by W. H. Norway in 1880 for the Surveyor General of the United States.
The principal controversy upon the first trial was whether or not…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- People v. California Fish Co.California Supreme Court · 1913
- Boone v. KingsburyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1928
- Times-Mirror Co. v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1935
- City of L.A. v. CohnCalifornia Supreme Court · 1894
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3Cited by6 opinions
- City of Long Beach v. MansellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1970
- Mayor of Baltimore v. Chesapeake Marine Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1964
- People Ex Rel. Mosk v. BarenfeldCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1962
- Mayor and City Council v. Crown Cork & Seal Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1941
- City of Stockton v. Miles and Sons, Inc.District Court, N.D. California · 1958
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