Lampe v. City & County of San Francisco

Citations

• 124 Cal. 546
• 57 P. 461
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 1033

Syllabus

<p>Liability of Municipal Corporation—Grading of Street—Obstruction of Surface Water.—A municipal corporation is not liable for damages resulting from the construction of an embankment in the grading of a street, which merely causes the surface water upon the lot of the plaintiff situated below the level of the graded street to accumulate thereupon, instead of flowing freely therefrom, as before the grading of the street, where it does not appear that the water flowed therefrom in a well-defined channel, or that accumulated surface waters were turned from other lands upon the lot of the plaintiff.</p>