Jarvis

Jarvis v. Santa Clara Valley R.R.

Good Law
52 Cal. 438
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJuly 1, 1877No. 5087California239 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

The allegations of the complaint are not sufficient to constitute a cause of action upon which a judgment can be founded. The only theory upon which the judgment in this case can stand is that the complaint sufficiently alleges either a private nuisance, or a public nuisance, from which the plaintiffs sustain some private injury peculiar to themselves,.and not in common with any one else. ( Yolo County v. The City of Sacramento, 36 Cal. 194 ; Blanc v. JTlumpke, 29 Cal. 156 .) It is not* pretended or claimed by the respondents that the erection of the bridge by the appellants is a private nuisance—indeed, the complaint alleges that the estuary or arm of the bay in question is “ a navigable stream, and has been used as such for upwards of twenty years,” any obstruction of which would, as a matter of course, constitute per se a public and not a private *440 nuisance. (Aram v. Schallenberger, 41 Cal. 449 ; L. T. Co. v. 8. & W. W. R. Co. Ibid. 562 .

A. M. Crane, for the Respondents.

The complaint does not contain a statement of facts showing that plaintiffs have suffered such damage (peculiar to themselves, and differing in kind and character from that suffered by members of the…

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