House v. Los Angeles County Flood Control District

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered after the trial court had sustained a demurrer to the plaintiff’s first amended complaint without leave to amend.

The plaintiff, as the owner of certain land in Los Angeles County adjacent to the Los Angeles River, undertakes to state a cause of action based upon damages to her property by reason of the negligence of the defendant district in its planning, construction and maintenance of certain flood control channel work in said river. She rests her right of recovery upon article I, section 14, of the state Constitution, which provides…