Richmond
Harbor Center Land Co. v. City of Richmond
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Beasly, J.
cases between identical parties involve the same questions, and will be determined together.
The purpose of the actions was to secure an injunction restraining the city of Richmond and its officers from removing the municipal offices from a certain building upon lands which the plaintiff claims were donated to the city by it for úse as a city hall, and from entering into a contract for the erection of a city hall for the city of Richmond.
So far as we can find, the questions presented, for decision are all settled .in this state. Most of them were disposed of in the case of Hopping v. Council of the City of Richmond, 170 Cal. 605 , [ 150 Pac. 977 ], and a case bearing the same titles and reported in 170 Cal. 618 , [ 150 Pac. 982 ]. In' those eases the supreme court by mandate compelled the city of Richmond to submit to the electors of the city for approval or rejection upon a referendum petition the question of providing for the acquisition from plaintiff by the municipality of the tract of land from which the city now proposes to remove its offices and the construction of a city hall thereon. At the election held pursuant to the mandate of the supreme court the resolution by…