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PEOPLE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.

Docket Nos. 50247, 50248, 50249.

139 Cal.App.3d 627 (1983)

188 Cal. Rptr. 913

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al., Defendants and Appellants. HARWOOD INVESTMENT CO., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant. GLENN R. HASELSWERDT et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

February 1, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

B. Clyde Hutchinson, Kevin J. McGrath, Dunne, Phelps, Mills & Jackson, Peter W. Davis and Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May for Defendants and Appellants.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, R.H. Connett, Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Strumwasser, Deputy Attorney General, Charles R. Bell and Bell, Cox & Mannon for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.*

On September 25, 1974, a fire started within a railroad right-of-way in a remote area of the Eel River Canyon in Mendocino County, and spread to other property, burning hundreds of acres of timber and grasslands until, 10 days later, it was finally suppressed. Harwood Investment Co. (Harwood) and Glenn R. Haselswerdt et al. (Haselswerdt), owners of property damaged by the fire, brought...

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