Myers v. Nelson

Citations

• 5 Cal. Unrep. 344
• 44 P. 801
• 1896 Cal. LEXIS 1076

Syllabus

<p>Highways—Obstruction of Culvert.—Where owners of land adjacent to a highway construct a system of artificial ditches, converging at a culvert crossing such highway, so as to discharge an unnatural quantity of water on the lower lands on the opposite side of such highway, the owner of such lower lands cannot dam the culvert on the highway for the purpose of protecting her lands from such overflow.</p>