Wright
Wright v. City of Oakland
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sure, J.
This case is almost identical with that of Rockridge Place Co. v. City of Oakland, 61 Cal. App. 791 [ 216 Pac. 64 ]. The cases were tried together upon substantially the same facts, and both involve the same points of law.
The court gave plaintiff judgment against defendant in the sum of two thousand dollars. As in the companion case, the appeal comes up on the judgment-roll alone.
In this case, however, the trial court -found facts additional to those narrated in the Roekridge Company case. It found that plaintiff did not in fact know of the actual performance of the work until it was practically completed; that at the time plaintiff first saw the work there remained only a small portion of the grading and surfacing to be performed; that plaintiff did at no time acquiesce or consent to the doing of the work at all; that subsequent to this time plaintiff entered into a contract with the contractors who were engaged in lowering the grade adjacent to her property whereby the contractors agreed to place the earth so removed on an adjacent lot belonging to plaintiff, and also to remove a certain -bank of earth from her property; that in consideration of this agreement plaintiff…