Williams v. Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant’s claim for damages and an injunction against defendant and respondent, Pacific Aggregates, Inc. The first cause of action alleged negligence on the part of respondent in carrying on its mining operations proximately resulting in damage to appellant’s crops from overflow waters. The second cause of action alleged a nuisance in that respondent erected and maintained dirt embankments resulting in an accumulation and diversion of water on respondent’s property without providing means for said water to return to its natural course of flow,…