PEOPLE v. MURATA

Docket No. L.A. 25903.

55 Cal.2d 1 (1960)

357 P.2d 833

9 Cal. Rptr. 601

THE PEOPLE ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Appellant, v. KENJI MURATA et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 13, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Hadley, Joseph A. Montoya, Hugh R. Williams and Charles E. Spencer, Jr., for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, B. Abbott Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, K.D. Lyders, Deputy Attorney General, Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Gilmore Tillman, Chief Assistant City Attorney for Water and Power, Russell B. Jarvis, Assistant City Attorney, Glen M. Pfau, Deputy City Attorney, Spencer M. Williams, County Counsel (Santa Clara), Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), A.R. Early, Deputy County Counsel, Richard H. Peterson, Henry J. La Plante, E. Kendell Davis and David S. Kaplan, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Hodge L. Dolle and J. Marion Wright for Respondents.

Tanner, Odell & Taft, Launer, Chaffee, Hanna, Ward & Stack, Robert E. Ward, Spray, Gould & Bowers and Joseph A. Spray as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


DOOLING, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in an eminent domain proceeding following a second trial by jury. The first judgment, on plaintiff's appeal, was reversed for errors of law committed by the trial court: (1) failure to give cautionary instructions relative to sales to condemners; (2) refusal to admit into evidence certain photographs of the property offered by plaintiff; and (3) restriction of plaintiff's cross...

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