City of Los Angeles v. Keck

Opinion

G1NSBURG, J. *

This is an appeal from a judgment condemning the fee title to certain real property. Plaintiffs are the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power, and defendants are the owners of 640 acres of agricultural land situate outside the territorial limits of plaintiff city, being in the County of Kern.

In 1950 plaintiffs brought an action in the Superior Court of Kern County to obtain a permanent easement across defendants’ property for the purpose of constructing and maintaining electrical transmission lines. Subsequently, the then owners of the property…