PEOPLE v. SYMONS

Docket No. L.A. 25999.

54 Cal.2d 855 (1960)

357 P.2d 451

9 Cal. Rptr. 363

THE PEOPLE, ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Respondent, v. FRANCIS G. SYMONS et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 9, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vaughan, Brandlin & Baggot and Thomas G. Baggot for Appellants.

George C. Hadley, Robert L. Meyer, Charles E. Spencer, Jr., and Philip F. Lanzafame for Respondent.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Walter S. Rountree, Assistant Attorney General, Manly D. Calof, Deputy Attorney General, Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), A.R. Early, Deputy County Counsel, Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, Peyton H. Moore, Jr., Division Chief Deputy City Attorney, Weldon L. Weber, Deputy City Attorney, Henry A. Dietz, County Counsel (San Diego), Robert G. Berrey, Deputy County Counsel, Stephen K. Tamura, County Counsel (Orange) and Adrian Kuyper, Assistant County Counsel, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


WHITE, J.

Defendants Francis G. Symons and Helen P. Symons appeal from a judgment determining and limiting severance damages in eminent domain proceedings for the partial taking of the defendants' residential property in the city of Los Angeles for the development of streets adjacent to a state freeway. Amici curiae briefs in support of the judgment have been filed by the attorney general, the county counsels of San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and by the...

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