Durfee v. Garvey

Belcher, C. C.

The plaintiff and defendant are owners of adjacent tracts of land in Los Angeles County, the defendant’s land lying to the southwest of the plaintiff’s. Plaintiff’s land is nearly level, and a large portion of it is swampy, and unfit for cultivation without artificial drainage. It has a slight inclination toward the southwest, and commencing on defendant’s land, about six or seven hundred yards from plaintiff's line, is a well-defined channel, called the Arroyo Honda, which leads off to the southwest. From plaintiff’s line to this arroyo was a slight depression, through which,…