Kossman

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in a condemnation proceeding.

Appellants in substance contend that they are entitled to recover as elements of damages certain expenses incurred by them in undertaking to mitigate the City’s damages. Their contentions are without merit.

Appellants at the time of trial owned a certain parcel of real property situated on the northwest comer of Hoover Street and 25th Street in the City of Los Angeles. On or about April 8, 1966, the City instituted in the superior court an action in condemnation naming as defendants the Kossmans and owners of adjacent properties along Hoover Street over which the City desired to obtain permanent easements for the purpose of street widening.

The Kossmans’ property is bounded for approximately 118 feet by Hoover Street and runs for about 150 feet along 25th Street. At the time this action arose the Kossmans owned and operated on their premises a commercial laundry which in part serviced the entire Los Angeles area by means of a system of delivery trucks. This laundry handled the cleaning and pressing of shirts, sheets and other finished items for retail laundry outlets in locations convenient to…