Legal Opinion
Spires v. Urbahn
California Supreme Court
Decided March 24, 1899No. L. A. No. 524PublishedCited by 13 opinions
APPEAL from a judgment o-f the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Lucien Shaw, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
PRINGLE, C.
Action brought to enforce the performance by the defendants of the following contract:
“The undersigned hereby agrees to deed to J. H. Spires, or assigns, as a right of -way for an electric railway, the south thirty feet of my seventeen and one-half acre tract, in section 35, township 1 south, range 14 west, S. B. M., Los Angeles county, California.
“Said right of way to be deeded to said Spires, or assigns, within thirty days after an electric railway has been built and in • operation on said right of way, permission being hereby granted. “Provided said road shall he built and in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Vassault v. EdwardsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1872
- Sayward v. HoughtonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1898
- Wilks v. Georgia Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1885
- Thurber v. MevesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1897
3Cited by13 opinions
- Poultry Producers of Southern California, Inc. v. BarlowCalifornia Supreme Court · 1922
- Marin Water & Power Co. v. Town of SausalitoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1914
- Stanley v. SumrellCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1914
- Gallagher v. Equitable Gas Light Co.California Supreme Court · 1904
- Pacific Etc. Ry. Co. v. Campbell-JohnstonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1908
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