Schulte v. North Pacific Transportation Co.

Citations

• 50 Cal. 592

Syllabus

<p>Nuisance bz Obstbucting a Stbeet.—If, in front of a lot in a city, there is a public street in a condition to be used as such, and an obstruction is placed on the street by which its use as a highway is impeded, and which prevents the owner of the lot from having free access to the street threfrom, he may maintain an action in his own name against the person maintaining the obstruction to abate it as a nuisance and to recover damages.</p> <p>Idem.—In such case it is not material by whom the street was improved, whether by the public-or by private persons.</p>