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- Title: Spaulding V. Cameron
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 18, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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Plaintiff owns and occupies a house on the east side of San Ysidro Drive, Los Angeles, at the bottom of Pea Vine Canyon. Defendant owns approximately 30 acres of land on the west slope of the canyon. In the summer and fall of 1946 defendant undertook leveling operations on his property. These operations consisted of removing the tops of three knolls and casting the earth over the sides of adjoining canyons, forming fills. Approximately one fifth of the earth was pushed over the west side of the Pea Vine Canyon northwest of plaintiff's house. In November of 1946 as a result of heavy rains large quantities of mud washed out of defendant's fill, flowed down the canyon, surrounded plaintiff's house and inundated the garages located on the ground level. Plaintiff brought this action for damages and for injunctive relief. The trial court found that plaintiff's property had suffered physical damage in the amount of $2,732.29, and that its market value had been reduced in the amount of $24,000 because of the continuing threat of future inundations of mud. It entered judgment for damages for both items and also ordered defendant either to remove the fill or to "place protective structures around . . . [it] in such manner that the property of the plaintiff will not be endangered or threatened by the existence of such deposits of loose dirt." Defendant appeals.