Sprecher v. Adamson Companies

30 Cal.3d 358 (1981)

636 P.2d 783

178 Cal. Rptr. 783

PETER SPRECHER, Cross-complainant and Appellant,

v.

ADAMSON COMPANIES et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Docket No. L.A. 31394.

Supreme Court of California.

December 7, 1981.

COUNSEL

Gary S. Elster, Dunne, Shallcross & Kane and Mark C. Kane for Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Tuttle & Taylor and Douglas W. Beck for Cross-defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

This case concerns the present validity of the old common law rule which immunized a possessor of land from liability for injury caused by a natural condition of his land to persons…