Lainer

This is an eminent domain action pertaining to the improvement and construction of public streets in Los Angeles as a part of a railroad grade separation project known as the Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Sherman Way Grade Separation project.

Defendants’ real property consisted of approximately 4 acres which adjoined the north side of Sherman Way for a distance of approximately 536 feet. Sherman Way was a through east-west highway which intersected Radford Avenue about 540 feet east of defendants’ property (Radford being the next intersecting street to the east), and intersected Laurel Canyon Boulevard, at grade, about 200 feet *147 west of their property (Laurel being the next intersecting street to the west of their property). Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a through north-south highway.

Defendants Mr. and Mrs. Lainer owned an undivided one-half of the property (referred to as Parcels No. 24A), and defendants Mr. and Mrs. Loew owned the other undivided one-half thereof.

The improvement project involved the relocation of Sherman Way to the east and south of defendants’ property so that it would underpass the railroad right-of-way and tracks of the Southern Pacific Company; and the…