John Hoagland v. City of Sacramento

Citations

• 52 Cal. 142

Syllabus

<p>Claim fob Damages against Municipal Cokpobation.—If the Levee Commissioners of a city, toy virtue of authority vested in them toy an act of the Legislature, and independent of the city authorities, excavate a canal in the vicinity of the city, to turn the water flowing in a river, and prevent it from overflowing the city, one injured by the water flowing in the canal has no claim, equitable or legal, against the city for his damages.</p> <p>Poweb of Legislature oveb a City.—The Legislature has no power to compel a city to pay a claim made against it, and which it is under no obligation, moral or equitable, to pay; nor can the Legislature require a Court to render judgment for said claim, upon proof of the amount thereof.</p>