County of Los Angeles v. Rindge Co.

The above-entitled actions were instituted by the county of Los Angeles to condemn certain lands described' in the complaints therein for use as highways. In each case an interlocutory judgment as prayed for was rendered for the plaintiff, followed by a final order of condemnation, from which judgment and order So rendered in each case the defendants therein have appealed.

In the first above-entitled case, and which appellants designate the “Main Road” case, the action was to condemn a strip of land from the public highway at a point on the southeasterly boundary line of the Malibu ranch, and through said ranch for a distance of some twenty miles or more to the westerly boundary line of Ventura County, at which point the proposed road terminated upon private land. In the other action, No. 3533½, it was sought to condemn land for a lateral highway beginning at a point on the proposed “Main Road” and running thence easterly, to the east boundary line of the Malibu ranch and terminating likewise upon private lands owned by one Decker, which highway appellants designate as the “Alisos.Canyon Road.” The questions involved in each case are the same and the ground upon which appellants…