Sixth District Etc. Assoc. v. Wright

In Sixth District Etc. Assoc. v. Wright (1908) 154 Cal. 119, the governing board of an agricultural district conveyed to a private corporation all of the district's property in purported accordance with a statute expressly authorizing such transactions. ( Id. at pp. 122-126.) However, the California Supreme Court held that the act purporting to authorize the transaction conflicted with a provision of the state Constitution barring gifts of public property ( id. at pp. 128-129) and rejected the defendants' assertion of the statute of limitations: "The property was held in trust by a state institution or public agency for a public use, which public use has not been discontinued or abandoned by any lawful act of public authority. As to such property it is well settled that the statute of limitations has no application." ( Id. at p. 130.)