City of Signal Hill v. Wyse

EDMONDS, J., pro tem.

This appeal by the defendant in a condemnation action has been taken upon the judgment roll alone. The principal question presented concerns the sufficiency of the findings of the trial court.

The complaint, in which appellant is the sole defendant named, alleged the facts on which the city based its right to take the one parcel of land owned by him upon payment of its value. Appellant in his answer admitted his ownership of the land and alleged it to be of the reasonable value of $10,000. The trial court made a finding “that the total compensation proper to be paid to the…