Burrows v. State of California

—This is an action against the State of California for diversion of surface waters.

The complaint alleges that plaintiffs own a trailer park on Soledad Canyon Bo ad in Los Angeles County. In April 1963, the defendant state resurfaced and widened the road near plaintiffs’ property. “As a result’ ’of said resurfacing and widening, the road surface to the center and edge thereof was raised and a previously existing gutter “eliminated, thereby causing a change in the drainage pattern on the trailer park property.” (Italics ours.) As a result, water on plaintiffs’ property does not drain…