Central Manufacturing District, Inc. v. State Board of Equalization

This is an application for a writ of mandamus.

The petitioner, Central Manufacturing District, Inc., is a private nonpublic utility corporation. It is the owner in fee of certain real property and improvements situate in the city of Los Angeles. The improvements consist of railroad tracks, rights of way, buildings, structures and appliances suitable to the operation of a railroad. The petitioner, Los Angeles Junction Railway Company, is a public utility railroad corporation having its principal office and carrying on a common carrier interstate and intrastate railroad business in Los Angeles…