Perkins v. Blauth
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. P. S. Driver, Devlin & Devlin, Charles W. Thomas, and Charles W. Thomas, Jr., for Appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Plaintiff sued defendants for damages in tort for injuries caused to his land. It is charged that the defendants cut a ditch some sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep through the bank of the Sacramento River and through a large levee constructed about one hundred and fifty feet back from the river margin, to permit the passage of a dredger; that after so excavating and cutting the bank, the defendants failed to erect a suitable dam or other fill sufficient to prevent the water of the Sacramento River from flowing through the ditch or canal thus dug and upon plaintiff’s land; that by reason of…
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