# Spring Valley Water Works v. Board of Supervisors

> California Supreme Court · June 6, 1881 · 61 Cal. 3

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5440809

## Case

- **Full name:** SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF SAN FRANCISCO
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 6, 1881
- **Citations:** 61 Cal. 3; 1881 Cal. LEXIS 533
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Myrick
- **Judges:** McKee, Myrick, Ross, Thornton
- **Cited by:** 19 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5440809

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that none of the “numerous objections to the proposition that a 4 direct action . . . for unjust enrichment can lie . . . compels the conclusion that such a claim is 5 absolutely foreclosed”

## Opinion text

Myrick, J., concurring:
I concur in the judgment. I also concur in the views of Mr. Justice McKee, except as to what is said regarding the power of the State, independent of the provisions of the State Constitution, to restrain or control franchises granted to corporations, -without their consent, and as to the grant of a franchise constituting a contract; upon these subjects I express no opinion.

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