Conniff v. City of San Francisco

This action was brought to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s lot and building caused by grading Montgomery Avenue, in the mode provided for grading streets in the general statute in regard thereto. It is averred in the complaint that in grading the street mentioned an embankment was formed fifteen feet above the plaintiff’s property and the contiguous lots, by which the water that ran in a water-course crossing the street was permanently stopped in its flow and backed upon plaintiff’s lot causing damage to it and the building thereon; that the street was thus made in accordance with…