People ex rel. Department of Public Works v. Church

In a certain cause numbered 106244 heretofore tried in the Superior Court of San Diego County, the People of the State of California sought to condemn for right-of-way purposes incident to the widening of a public highway certain lands, which included those known as lots 2 to 6, both inclusive, of West Atlantic Street Addition, in the City of San Diego. Among the defendants in that action were one Jane P. Joslyn, the owner of the five lots, and one Walter Church, the defendant and respondent in the instant case. The latter was lessee under a lease from said Jane P. Joslyn running by its terms…