STAR-KIST FOODS, INC. v. QUINN

Docket No. L.A. 25234.

54 Cal.2d 507 (1960)

354 P.2d 1

6 Cal. Rptr. 545

STAR-KIST FOODS, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent, v. JOHN R. QUINN, as County Tax Assessor, etc., et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 26, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, Alfred Charles DeFlon and Carroll H. Smith, Deputy County Counsel for Appellants.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, James E. Sabine and Dan Kaufmann, Assistant Attorneys General, and Ernest P. Goodman, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Real & Real, M.L. Real and Bruce I. Hochman for Respondent.

J. Kerwin Rooney, Port Attorney, Port of Oakland, Robert G. Cockins, City Attorney (Santa Monica), O'Melveny & Myers, George F. Elmendorf, Bennett W. Priest, Lillick, Geary, McHose, Roethke & Myers, John C. McHose, Holbrook, Tarr & O'Neill, W. Sumner Holbrook, Jr., Francis H. O'Neill, John F. O'Hara, Horton & Foote, Joseph K. Horton, Ralph D. Sweeney, Luce, Forward, Kunzel & Scripps, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Fred Kunzel, James C. Hewitt, Howard H. Taylor, Oakes & Horton and Robert A. Oakes as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

Star-Kist Foods, Inc., leases certain land and improvements owned by the city of Los Angeles and located within its boundaries. Its leases were made before our decision in De Luz Homes, Inc. v. County of San Diego, 45 Cal.2d 546 [290 P.2d 544], became final and were not extended or renewed thereafter. Section 107.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides that such leasehold...

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