Southern California Utilities, Inc. v. City of Huntington Park

April 13, 1903, the board of supervisors of Los Angeles county, state of California, adopted an ordinance granting to E. B. Baker and assigns, for the term of 30 years, the privilege and franchise to lay down, construct, and maintain pipes, pipe lines, and water conduits through, in, and under the public streets, alleys, and highways of the county, then or thereafter established, within certain described territory, for the purpose of carrying, conducting, and distributing water for domestic purposes and for irrigation. Thereafter Baker assigned the franchise, rights, and privileges thus *869 granted to tho South Los Angeles Water Company, and June 7, 1926, the South Los Angeles Water Company assigned the same to the Southern California Utilities, Inc.

The city of Huntington Park was ineor-ported as a municipal corporation under the general laws of the state in 1906, with boundaries wholly within the territory described in tho ordinance of .1903. Juno 4,1923, the city council of the city thus incorporated adopted a resolution declaring its intention to lay a system of pipes and pipe linos under and along the streets and other public places within the city to furnish and supply…