STEVENSON v. CITY OF DOWNEY

Docket No. 25619.

205 Cal.App.2d 585 (1962)

23 Cal. Rptr. 127

C.H. STEVENSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF DOWNEY, Defendant and Respondent; W.G. SMITH, INC., et al., Interveners and Appellants.

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

July 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Bremer for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Royal M. Sorensen, City Attorney, and Burke, Williams & Sorensen for Defendant and Respondent.

Richards, Watson, Smith & Hemmerling, H.O. Van Petten, and Frederick L. Simmons for Interveners and Appellants.


FILES, J.

This case involves the effect of a landowner's abandonment of certain rights of access to an abutting street, and the legality of a subsequent resolution of the city council authorizing the opening of a new entrance to the property. The trial court upheld both the abandonment and the resolution opening a new entrance.

Plaintiff, a nearby resident, appeals because, he says, the city should not have allowed a new entrance. Intervener, as tenant of...

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