Legal Opinion
Mann v. City of Bakersfield
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 23, 1961No. Civ. 6545PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCoughlin, J.
The primary issue on this appeal concerns the nature of the right of a railway company to use a city street for spur track purposes, and the interest of an adjoining property owner served thereby pursuant to a track agreement with that company.
In June 1925, the city council of the chartered city of Bakersfield, which is the defendant and respondent herein, by motion granted a franchise to the Santa Fe Railway Company to “construct, operate and maintain a spur track” in an alley running through Blocks 329 to 334 inclusive of that city. The period of time during which this franchise might be…
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- Pry Corp. of America v. LeachCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1960
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