Ventura Foothill Neighbors v. County of Ventura

Opinion

YEGAN, J.

As Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “Men must turn square comers when they deal with the Government.” (Rock Island &c. R. R. v. United States (1920) 254 U.S. 141, 143 [65 L.Ed. 188, 41 S.Ct. 55].) Our own California Supreme Court remarked: “. . . ‘It is hard to see why the government should not be held to a like standard of rectangular rectitude when dealing with its citizens.’ [Citation.]” (Farrell v. County of Placer (1944) 23 Cal.2d 624, 628 [145 P.2d 570]; see Title Ins. Co. v. State Bd. of Equalization (1992) 4 Cal.4th 715, 730 [14 Cal.Rptr.2d 822, 842 P.2d 121].) Here the…