Legal Opinion

Shaw v. Crocker

California Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1871No. 2,793PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Sacramento County. The plaintiff recovered judgment in the Court below for one thousand dollars. Defendant moved for a new trial, which being refused, he took this appeal from the judgment and order.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court, Crockett, J.:

The plaintiff was the owner of several lots situate in the City of Sacramento, fronting on First street, and of several frame buildings erected thereon. The substance of the complaint is that the defendant and his servants wrongfully entered upon said lots, and “ unlawfully, willfully, carelessly, and negligently threw, deposited, and forced stones, gravel, earth, and other solid and weighty substances upon and against such buildings, and upon and against the timbers supporting the same,” whereby the timbers were forced from their places, and the buildings were…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Wilson v. Mayor of New YorkCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1845
  2. Goszler v. Corporation of GeorgetownSupreme Court of the United States · 1821
  3. Thurston v. HancockMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1815
  4. Green v. Borough of ReadingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
  5. City of St. Louis v. GurnoSupreme Court of Missouri · 1849

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Henderson v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
  2. Marin Municipal Water District v. Peninsula Paving Co.California Court of Appeal · 1939
  3. Steiger v. City of San DiegoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1958
  4. Anderson v. Fay Improvement Co.California Court of Appeal · 1955
  5. Fitzgibbon v. Western Dredging Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1908

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