Los Angeles Cemetery Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles

Searls, C.

The plaintiff and appellant here is a corporation and the owner of some thirty-five acres of land situate within the city of Los Angeles, and devoted to the purposes of a cemetery.

The action is brought against the city of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation, to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by the construction of an embankment across an alleged watercourse, near to and below the cemetery, in which a culvert was constructed of such small size, and at such an elevation above the natural surface, that it was insufficient and unable to *463carry off the water which in time…