Legal Opinion
Miramar Co. v. City of Santa Barbara
California Supreme Court
Decided November 3, 1943No. L. A. 18349PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTraynor, J.
Plaintiff owns littoral lands, adjacent to Miramar Bay and about two and one-half miles east of the city of Santa Barbara, upon which it operated cottages and a hotel known as Miramar Beach Hotel. On June 8, 1927, the city of Santa Barbara commenced the construction, about three miles west of plaintiff’s property, of a permanent breakwater to extend from the shore bank approximately 2,500 feet into the Pacific Ocean.
The complaint alleged that since the littoral drift along the shore line is from west to east, the effect of the breakwater was to stop the natural flow of sand and to wash away…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Gibson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
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