Taylor v. City of Los Angeles

This is an appeal, on the judgment roll, from a judgment based on the sustaining of a demurrer to the complaint without leave to amend.

The complaint alleged, in substance, that while plaintiffs, as employees of the Works Progress Administration, were performing certain duties with a compressor crew engaged in the removal of an old abandoned concrete storm drain from a ditch on a street in Los Angeles, sparks from a jackhammer operation caused an explosion of accumulated gas, on account of which plaintiffs suffered serious burns. It is further alleged that such injuries resulted from the…