CITY OF BERKELEY v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 23686.

26 Cal.3d 515 (1980)

606 P.2d 362

162 Cal. Rptr. 327

CITY OF BERKELEY et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; SANTA FE LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

February 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, N. Gregory Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Dennis M. Eagan, Deputy Attorney General, Michael Lawson, City Attorney, Sullivan, Jones & Archer, Richard J. Archer, Kristina M. Hanson and Lee J. Sclar for Petitioners.

Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, Barry L. Bunshoft, Donald Alford Weadon, Jr., and John D. Hoffman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Edgar B. Washburn, Frederick M. Wooster, Washburn, Kemp & Wagenseil, Paul O. Lamphere and Cox, Cummins & Lamphere for Real Parties in Interest.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Nobel K. Gregory and Allan N. Littman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

(1) (See fn. 1.) (2a) We are concerned in this case with whether tidelands1 in San Francisco Bay granted to private parties by the state Board of Tide Land Commissioners (board) in the latter part of the 19th century, pursuant to a legislative act passed in 1870, conveyed title to the purchasers free of the public trust for commerce...

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