Concrete Service Co. v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Works

Opinion

DEVINE, P. J.

In an earlier appeal from a judgment in inverse condemnation, plaintiff was held to have a compensable interest in improvements, equipment and machinery located on the taken land. (Concrete Service Co. v. State of California ex rel. Dept. Pub. Wks., 274 Cal.App.2d 142 [78 Cal.Rptr. 923].) On remand, the trial court held that appellant was entitled only to the removal value of its property, a concrete batch plant. It was stipulated that the removal value was zero.

Concrete installed its plant in 1950 on land owned by Galli. It held a five-year, and later a ten-year, lease,…