UNOCAL CALIFORNIA PIPELINE CO. v. CONWAY

Docket No. B073794.

23 Cal.App.4th 331 (1994)

28 Cal. Rptr.2d 429

UNOCAL CALIFORNIA PIPELINE CO., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FRANCES M. CONWAY et al., Defendants and Appellants.

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

March 16, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Lowthorp, Richards, McMillan, Miller, Conway & Templeman and Charles J. Conway, Jr., for Defendants and Appellants.

Baker & McKenzie, Dennis Keeley and Peter J. Engstrom for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GILBERT, J.

In this eminent domain action a pipeline corporation has as its only customer its parent company. We hold it may be a public utility as defined in Public Utilities Code section 216. The pipeline corporation thus has the power of eminent domain. (Pub. Util. Code, § 615.)

We also hold that a business need not relocate to qualify for damages due to loss...

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