Legal Opinion
Allen v. Sundean
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 5, 1982No. Civ. 47862PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GRODIN, P. J.
This litigation arises out of property damage caused by a 1974 landslide in Santa Cruz. The. trial court, sitting by stipulation without a jury, found that Sundean, the original developer of the lots, was guilty of wilful misconduct in placing poor quality fill upon the hillside lots without proper compacting and engineering and of fraudulent concealment in failing to disclose to purchasers the nature and extent of the fill.
Though the development occurred some 20 years prior to the slide, the court rejected Sundean’s statute of limitations defense, finding that the…
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