PEOPLE EX REL. DEPT. PUBLIC WORKS v. FORSTER

Docket No. L.A. 26507.

58 Cal.2d 257 (1962)

373 P.2d 630

23 Cal. Rptr. 582

THE PEOPLE ex rel. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. HUGO A. FORSTER et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 31, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Hadley, Richard L. Franck, Thomas M. Dankert, Charles E. Spencer, Jr., and Robert E. Reed for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Henry A. Dietz, County Counsel (San Diego), and David B. Walker, Deputy County Counsel, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

John W. Solomon, Holbrook, Tarr & O'Neill, Francis H. O'Neill and Richard L. Huxtable for Defendants and Respondents.

Stanley B. Christensen, City Attorney (Fullerton), Willard Pool, City Attorney (Garden Grove), Calvin P. Schmidt, City Attorney (Cities of Villa Park, Fountain Valley and Los Alamitos), and James G. Rourke, City Attorney (Tustin), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


SCHAUER, J.

In this condemnation action plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict awarding defendants $333,100 as the value of land taken for highway purposes, plus $30,000 severance damage, or a total of $363,100. As hereinafter appears, we have concluded that there is no merit in plaintiff's contentions, 1) that the trial court committed prejudicial error in receiving in evidence over plaintiff's objection an admission or declaration of...

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