Sanguinetti v. Pock

CHIPMAN, C.

Action to have a certain levee constructed by defendant declared to be a nuisance and for damages. A jury was called to determine certain special issues and the court also made findings of fact. The following diagram will illustrate the facts:—

Summarized from the findings, it appears that plaintiff and defendant own adjoining lands, as shown by the diagram; a natural waterway passes through these lands; its course is from east to west, and it extends eastward some distance east of the Mariposa road and westward through defendant’s land, and “in its natural condition was sufficient…