Callens v. County of Orange

Defendant and appellant county of Orange, after judgment on a jury verdict for plaintiffs for $8,000 damages, filed this appeal. It is claimed, in one cause of action, that the damage to plaintiffs’ property was by reason of defendant’s failure to erect a dam or other obstruction sufficient to prevent surface and flood waters from flowing upon plaintiffs’ land, and in a second cause of action, that defendant negligently and wrongfully excavated and cut drainage ditches and changed the natural course and flow of surface and flood waters so as to cause them to flow over and upon plaintiffs’…