Southern Pacific R.R. Co. v. Stibbens

The appellant is a railway corporation owning a right of way over which it operates freight and passenger trains as a common carrier from the city of Los Angeles easterly through portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and Imperial Counties in the state of California to Yuma, in the state of Arizona, and points east. Respondent is county tax collector of Riverside County, and, as such, took steps to sell the land composing 45.626 miles of appellant's main line roadbed, 165 feet in width, in Riverside County, because of an unpaid assessment levied for the benefit of the Coachella Valley Storm Water…