Capron v. State of California

In June 1944, the Legislature enacted the Property Acquisition Act (Stats. 1945, Fourth Ex. Sess. 1944, ch. 18, pp. 149-153). As a portion of this enactment, the Property Acquisition Board was created and directed to acquire, on behalf of the state, real property sites in furtherance of the postwar proposed construction program as expressed in subsequent legislative appropriations for that purpose. Thereafter the Legislature appropriated the sum of $400,000 “to be expended under the provisions of the Property Acquisition Act for the acquisition of real property in furtherance of the postwar…