Colusa & Hamilton Railroad v. Leonard
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Glenn County. Wm. M. Finch, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Plaintiff by this action in eminent domain sought to acquire as a roadway for its railroad a strip of land running north and south, in part dividing and in part on the westerly boundary of the farming lands of defendants. These lands, in all about 560 acres, are low-lying lands, in a natural state subject to overflow from the Sacramento River. They are situated in the county of Glenn and the Sacramento 'River forms their easterly boundary. On this river frontage is built a high and strong levee, constructed in 1910, after the exceptionally high floods of 1909. Notwithstanding that in the…
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