California Supreme Court, 1881

Rhoda v. Alameda County

Rhoda v. Alameda County
California Supreme Court · Decided July 1, 1881
58 Cal. 357; 1881 Cal. LEXIS 233

Rhoda v. Alameda County

Opinion of the Court

The Court:

The Court found that the vault, at the time of its removal, was a fixture, and part of the realty, and was the property of plaintiffs; that defendants had no legal right to remove it; and that its value, to be sold in open market, was, at the time of its removal, not over five hundred dollars; and thereupon the Court rendered judgment for that amount. In such case the measure of damages is the value of the article as it was in place as a part of the realty, immediately preceding its removal; not what it would sell for in open market removed from the building. (Civ. Code, § 3333; Whitbeck v. N. Y. Central R. R. Co., 36 Barb. 644.)

Judgment and order reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial.

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