In re Hoffman

In In re Hoffman (1967) 67 Cal.2d 845, the private property was Union Station, the Los Angeles railroad depot owned by three railroad companies. Although the primary purposes of the depot were and remain evident, the petitioner and others entered Union Station to distribute anti-Vietnam War literature. When they refused to leave the station after being ordered to do so, they were arrested and convicted as trespassers. In granting the writ of habeas corpus, the California Supreme Court stated, "the test is not whether petitioners' use of the station was a railway use but whether it interfered with that use." ( Id. at p. 851.)