Sutherland v. City of Fort Bragg

Opinion

SEPULVEDA, J.

In 1977, plaintiffs Douglas and Jill Sutherland bought the Barracks Mall in downtown Fort Bragg, a two-story commercial and residential building that occupies the lot on which it is situated, up to the perimeter of the property line. At that time and continuing to 1997, the lot adjoining Barracks Mall to the south, owned by David Codling (Codling), was vacant. Owing to that fact, tenants in the upstairs apartments on the south side of Barracks Mall received light and air through the south-facing windows and, according to allegations in plaintiffs’ second amended complaint,…