Legal Opinion

Spangler v. City of San Francisco

California Supreme Court

Decided May 3, 1890No. 11958PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtThornton, J.

— This is an action to recover of the city and county of San Francisco damages for neglect in keeping a sewer in repair, whereby the plaintiff was injured.

At the time that the injury occurred, and for some years before, the plaintiff was the owner of a lot of land situate at the southwesterly corner of Eighteenth and Fair Oaks streets, 27 feet on Eighteenth Street and 101 feet on Fair Oaks Street, the lot lying east of Fair Oaks, *14and constituting a parallelogram of 27 by 101 feet, on which he had, in 1877, built a house.

The material facts are found by the court as follows: “ That prior to…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Mayor of New-York v. BaileyNew York Supreme Court · 1845
  2. Barton v. . the City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
  3. The Rochester White Lead Co. v. . the City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
  4. Barton v. City of SyracuseNew York Supreme Court · 1861
  5. Bloom v. City & County of San FranciscoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1884

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. San Gabriel Valley Country Club v. County of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1920
  2. Lindblom v. Round Valley Water Co.California Supreme Court · 1918
  3. Sturges v. Charles L. Harney, Inc.California Court of Appeal · 1958
  4. Western Salt Co. v. City of San DiegoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1919
  5. Elliott v. County of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1920

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