Opinion

Yosemite Stage & Turnpike Co. v. Dunn

  • 83 Cal. 264
  • 23 P. 369
  • 1890 Cal. LEXIS 677
Court
California Supreme Court
Filed
Feb 28, 1890
Status
Published
Author
Fox
On the bench
Foote, Fox
Cited by
7 cases

The opinion

Fox, J., concurring.

I concur in the order for the writ. There was no provision in the original lease that the road should revert to the state at the expiration of the term, or ever, but there was a provision that the state, or the board of commissioners, might become the purchaser thereof whenever it should so elect. The state or board did not purchase, during the term, but permitted the petitioners to remain in possession for the time *270 being, and subsequently made to them a second lease for ten years. The board of commissioners, on behalf of the state, is now buying out the road, as it was originally provided it might do. I think they have the right to make the purchase; of the policy of doing it this court is not the judge.

Sharpstein, J., concurred in the opinion of Mr. Justice Fox.

Paterson, J., dissented.

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