City of Los Angeles v. Moore
California Court of Appeal
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Albert Lee Stephens, City Attorney, and Myron Westover, Deputy City Attorney, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtJames, J.
This action was brought by the city of Los Angeles to condemn two certain strips of land lying on either side of Avenue 20, for the purpose of widening that thoroughfare. The only question to be considered on this appeal concerns the matter of the ownership of one parcel of land affected by the condemnation. The city of Los Angeles, the plaintiff, claimed that it was the owner of this parcel; the trial court, however, determined that the title was in respondent Carter. Carter, by his answer made to the complaint, pleaded a former adjudication as to this precise parcel of land, had in an…
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