De Long v. Warren

Citations

• 4 Cal. Unrep. 677
• 36 P. 1009

Syllabus

<p>Public Street—Changing Grade—Damages.—Under Constitution of 1879, article 1, section 14, providing that private property shall not be taken “or damaged” for public use without just compensation having been first made, damages peculiar to property of an abutting owner may be recovered of one who fills earth into a street to conform to a new grade to which it had been lawfully changed, though he is duly authorized to do so.1</p>