Woo v. Martz

This action was instituted to enforce an asserted easement for the discharge of storm waters over appellants’ lands adjacent to the tract held under lease by respondents and for damages to the latter resulting from loss of crops that perished under the waters diverted by appellants from their established course.

In 1942 respondents Woo leased from one Raymond Hails about 51 acres of agricultural lands in the Dominguez Colony Tract in Los Angeles County. The lands were promptly planted to garden truck which by January, 1943, attained commercial maturity with a value of $6,100. The following…