Agudo v. County of Monterey

The appeal in this case presents for review a judgment in favor of the defendant county after its demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint was sustained without leave to amend. The only point in controversy is whether a cause of action based upon section 4452 of the Political Code, which provides that “Every county and municipal corporation is responsible for injury to real or personal property situate within its corporate limits, done or caused by mobs or riots,” is assignable.

The plaintiff alleges in his complaint that in 1934 one Cañete was a labor contractor hiring men to work in the fields,…