People ex rel. Heyneman v. Blake
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth District. December 5th, 1860, the San Francisco Water Works Company filed a petition with the Judge of the county of San Francisco, addressed to said Judge, alleging in substance that petitioners are a corporation duly organized under the laws of this State, and particularly under and in conformity to “ An Act to Provide for the Formation of Corporations for Certain Purposes,” passed April 14th, 1853, and amended by an Act of April 30th, 1855, and…
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Appeal from the Fourth District. December 5th, 1860, the San Francisco Water Works Company filed a petition with the Judge of the county of San Francisco, addressed to said Judge, alleging in substance that petitioners are a corporation duly organized under the laws of this State, and particularly under and in conformity to “ An Act to Provide for the Formation of Corporations for Certain Purposes,” passed April 14th, 1853, and amended by an Act of April 30th, 1855, and under an act passed April 22d, 1858, entitled “An Act for the Incorporation of Water Companies;” that said corporation was…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Cope, J. concurring.
The material questions presented for determination in .this case are: 1st, whether the San Francisco City Water Works became a corporation by the proceedings taken under the Act of April 14th, 1853, providing for the formation of corporations for certain purposes ; 2d, whether, if a corporation, the company became invested by the Act of April 22d, 1858, with the power to condemn private lands in the execution of the purposes of the incorporation; and 3d, whether the latter act, in providing that the compensation to the owners for the lands taken or injuriously affected…
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