People ex rel. Department of Public Works v. Volz

In People ex rel. Department of Public Works v. Volz (1972) 25 Cal. App. 3d 480, the state condemned land and urged the land should be devalued because of a recorded 1910 street easement through it. A parallel easement existed nearby, on which Riverside Boulevard was built in 1940. This court upheld the exclusion of evidence of the 1910 easement, concluding the easement was unnecessary and the property owner had relied on the government to relocate the easement, rather than retain two easements, one of which was useless to the government but burdensome to the property owner. (Id. at pp. 489-490.)