Schaufele
Schaufele v. Doyle
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Thornton, J.
— Suit for an injunction. The plaintiff alleged in her complaint that she was the owner of and carried on the business of keeping a hotel and lodging-house, upon a certain lot fronting on Alvarado Street, *108 in the city of Monterey; that the defendants, who were insolvent, were unlawfully 'digging up and regrading Alvarado Street at various places between certain points thereon, and threatened to continue to do so; and unlawfully threatened to fill up and raise the grade of said street in front of plaintiff’s premises to an additional height of about four feet, and thereby ruin her business, and damage her buildings in a sum not less than three thousand dollars, and render them useless and uninhabitable, and necessitate the filling up of her lot to a height of ten feet at the rear end, which would make access to it from that side impracticable and inconvenient; that said defendants in like manner threatened to tear up her sidewalk on said street, and dig up and destroy her sewerage system, and thereby render her premises unwholesome and uninhabitable, and create a nuisance that she would be compelled to abate; that she would suffer the destruction of her business, irreparable…