Asher v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.

This is an action to recover damages for the washing away of a part of plaintiff’s land by the waters that flowed down the Lexington Wash, near the town of El Monte, in Los Angeles County, during the flood of February 20, 1914. In August, 1913, the Bailway Company had reinforced its bridge across the wash by placing sway-braces on the bents. It is claimed by plaintiff that in thus placing sway-braces on the bents of the bridge, defendant was guilty of culpable negligence, and that this negligence was the proximate cause, or concurring proximate cause, of the diversion of the flood waters on…