SOUTHERN CAL. GAS CO. v. CITY OF L.A.

Docket No. L.A. 24909.

50 Cal.2d 713 (1958)

329 P.2d 289

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, and Claude E. Hilker, Deputy City Attorney, for Appellant.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and Edward H. Gaylord, Deputy County Counsel, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

T.J. Reynolds, L.T. Rice, Allen L. Cleveland, C.R. Salter, Bates Booth, Arville A. Armstrong, Jr., and Gertrude Greengard for Respondent.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Norman S. Sterry, Ira C. Powers, Martin E. Whelan, Jr., F.T. Searls, P.E. Sloane, W.E. Johns and R.A. Clarke as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

The city of Los Angeles constructed the La Cienega and San Fernando Relief Sewer as part of a sewer construction program. A short section of this sewer line passes under a narrow strip of land known as the County Strip located outside the city limits in an unincorporated area of the county of Los Angeles. To construct the sewer it was necessary to relocate gas lines of the Southern California Gas Company. The...

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