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PEOPLE v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. 24314.

179 Cal.App.2d 558 (1960)

4 Cal. Rptr. 531

THE PEOPLE ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Respondents; VAN M. GRIFFITH, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

April 8, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur E. Briggs for Appellant.

Carr & Kennedy as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

George C. Hadley, George Miley and Charles E. Spencer, Jr., for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, Peyton H. Moore, Division Chief Deputy City Attorney, and Claude E. Hilker, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

LILLIE, J.

The state, through the Department of Public Works, sued the city of Los Angeles, Van M. Griffith, and others to condemn their interests in certain lands known as Griffith Park for the construction of a state highway. After a trial without a jury, judgment was entered condemning the land to plaintiff, awarding the city the sum of $3,750,000 and denying defendant Griffith compensation. He alone appeals from the judgment.

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