State of Cal. Ex Rel. State Pub. Wks. Bd. v. Wherity

Plaintiff State of California appeals from a judgment upon a jury verdict in an action brought by plaintiff to condemn, for use as part of the Capitol Area Plan, a parceL of land in the City of Sacramento.

The parcel is a lot 31% feet- by 80 feet, containing approximately 2,500 square feet, improved with an apartment house with two one-bedroom flats on the ground floor and one two-bedroom flat on the second floor. The area in which the lot is situated is zoned C-3 commercial. Miss Wherity, the defendant, who had actual ownership of the property, testified that she valued her property, land and…