YOUNGSTOWN STEEL ETC. CO. v. CITY OF L.A.

Docket No. L.A. 21494.

38 Cal.2d 407 (1952)

240 P.2d 977

THE YOUNGSTOWN STEEL PRODUCTS COMPANY, Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 19, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chandler, Wright, Tyler & Ward and Oliver S. Northcote for Appellant.

Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney, Gilmore Tillman, Chief Assistant City Attorney, and Alfred H. Driscoll, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondents.

O'Melveny & Myers and Louis W. Myers, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


GIBSON, C.J.

This action was brought to compel the defendants to raise certain power lines and to obtain a declaration of the rights of the parties under an instrument granting to the city the right to maintain the wires above plaintiff's land. The grant gives the city a right of way across the land "with the right to erect and maintain poles with all necessary wires and fixtures thereon, and to keep same free from foliage...

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