Legal Opinion
Vieux v. County of Alameda
District Court, N.D. California
Decided September 29, 1987No. C-85-3394 WHOPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
ORRICK, District Judge.
The major question considered in this action is whether plaintiff landowners become entitled to reversionary land interests in abandoned railroad rights-of-way. For the reasons set forth below, the Court finds that they do not.
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Plaintiffs are twenty-one landowners, or executors or trustees of landowners, challenging the transfer by Southern Pacific Transportation Company (“Southern Pacific”) to the County of Alameda (the “County”) of certain railroad rights-of-way located in two separate areas known as Niles Canyon Road (9.7 miles long) and the Altamont…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Kalo Brick & Tile Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Colorado v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Faus v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
- City of Venice v. Short Line Beach Land Co.California Supreme Court · 1919
- Purcell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Concord & Bay Point Land Co. v. City of ConcordCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1991
- Vieux v. East Bay Regional Park DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
- Vieux v. East Bay Regional Park DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
- Bob Vieux Joyce Vieux Donald Vieux, of Zwissig Estate Ralph Pombo Bob Frick Gordon Griffith Marianne Griffith Kathleen Brockman Nancy Burr Miguel Franco Joe Jess Paul Marciel Don Scullion, of Greeley Estate Antonio Martin Don Brooks Edward Depaoli Ray Peterson Antonette Egan Ferma Corporation, a California Corporation Rancho Arroyo De La Alameda, a General Partnership v. East Bay Regional Park District, a Body Politic, Bob Vieux Joyce Vieux Donald Vieux, of Zwissig Estate Ralph Pombo Bob Frick Gordon Griffith Marianne Griffith Kathleen Brockman Nancy Burr Miguel Franco Joe Jess Paul Marciel Don Scullion, of Greeley Estate Antonio Martin Don Brooks Edward Depaoli Ray Peterson Antonette Egan Ferma Corporation, a California Corporation Rancho Arroyo De La Alameda, a General Partnership v. East Bay Regional Park District, a Body Politic, and County of Alameda, a Political Division of the State of California Southern Pacific Transportation Company, a Delaware Corporation Santa Fe Pacific Realty Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Robert T. Knox and John GeorgeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
- Bob Vieux Joyce Vieux Donald Vieux, of Zwissig Estate Ralph Pombo Bob Frick Gordon Griffith Marianne Griffith Kathleen Brockman Nancy Burr Miguel Franco Joe Jess Paul Marciel Don Scullion, of Greeley Estate Antonio Martin Don Brooks Edward Depaoli Ray Peterson Antonette Egan Ferma Corporation, a California Corporation Rancho Arroyo De La Alameda, a General Partnership v. East Bay Regional Park District, a Body Politic, Bob Vieux Joyce Vieux Donald Vieux, of Zwissig Estate Ralph Pombo Bob Frick Gordon Griffith Marianne Griffith Kathleen Brockman Nancy Burr Miguel Franco Joe Jess Paul Marciel Don Scullion, of Greeley Estate Antonio Martin Don Brooks Edward Depaoli Ray Peterson Antonette Egan Ferma Corporation, a California Corporation Rancho Arroyo De La Alameda, a General Partnership v. East Bay Regional Park District, a Body Politic, and County of Alameda, a Political Division of the State of California Southern Pacific Transportation Company, a Delaware Corporation Santa Fe Pacific Realty Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Robert T. Knox and John GeorgeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990