Porter v. City of Los Angeles
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
—The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of certain land fronting on Hill Street, in the city of Los Angeles, upon which she was erecting an apartment house and had proceeded so far as to put in the foundations thereof; that the city of Los Angeles entered into a contract with the defendants Spicer & Wattson for the construction of a tunnel beneath the street along the line thereof in front of plaintiff’s land; that in constructing the tunnel the defendants negligently failed to support the soil and earth above and adjacent thereto while performing the work and that for want of…
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