United California Bank v. People Ex Rel. Department of Public Works

Opinion

DUNN, J.

This appeal by defendant flows from the second trial of an inverse condemnation suit, wherein plaintiff (respondent herein) received judgment for $54,625.

Respondent bank, as trustee, held title to the westerly half of the Orange Belt Emporium, a retail department store in the City of Pomona. In a north-*4south direction the store property was 120 feet long and east-west it was 60 feet wide.1 The agreed date of value was July 1, 1961. Then, and before, the property lay on the east side of Garey Avenue and was bounded on the north by First Street, on the south by Second Street and…