Sprecher v. Adamson Companies

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 or property not on his land.

I

The following facts are not in dispute. Respondent, South Winter Mesa Associates, a joint venture between respondents the Adamson Companies and Century-Malibu Ventures, Inc., owns a 90-acre parcel of land in Malibu, California. The parcel is bounded on the north by *361the Pacific Coast Highway and on the south by Malibu Road. Across Malibu Road and opposite the parcel…