Beronio v. Southern Pacific Railroad

— The town of San Buenaventura is a municipal corporation. The legal title to the lands comprising Front Street in said town was granted to the then town authorities October 13,1869, “as a public street, to be forever kept open and maintained as such, and not to be used for any other purpose, nor be diminished in width.” On the 4th of October, 1886, the president and board of trustees of the town, by ordinance, granted to the defendant a right to lay, maintain, and operate a single or double track railroad along and upon said Front Street for the whole length thereof, from a point near…