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Show COURT TO HEAR RAILROAD TIGHT Right of Western Pacific to Cross Southern Pacific TracKs to Reach Tide- water Is Issue. . SAN FRANCISCO, CaL, Oct 29. The fight of the Western Pacific to reach tidewater in Oakland and to cross the tracks of the Southern Pacific will be heard in the Court of Appeals today, when the case will come up before Judge Boss. The question at issue is the right of the Western Pacific to cross the tracks ef the Southern Pacific on the Oakland water front, in order to reach tidewater; tidewa-ter; When the case was heard before Judge Morrow, a decision unfavorable . to the Gould line was rendered, and the case was promptly, appealed. Although the question is a vital one to the Gonld line, and will determine, to a large extent, its future policy, even if the case goes against it, the Western Pacific will not be prevented from gaining an entry to San Francisco. It will effectually cut across to the Oakland water front, but the franchise of the Western Pacific provides three ! ways by which the road may enter the city. Permission is. given to come in by way of Dumbarton Point, or to come up the peninsula from the Santa Clara valley. |