California Supreme Court--Inverse Condemnation

[barneysbobbyboy]

The drainage channel is not their property. The land owner decided to have that low place we call a drainage channel- the state of california does not have any right to tell the county to get an easement. I dug that channel myself 50 years ago at the request of the land owner- nothing to do with the county or caltrans.

[InverseCondemnation1]

This is why Caltrans is now shoveling drbris into this drainage channel!

May 14, 1987 Cal Trans File G. L. Simms Subject Oceano Drainage Problem " We discussed the flooding problems that would be created by passing the water under the railroad through a new culvert. That would require the County buy an easement south and west of the railroad to maintain a channel to protect the residences in the low lands."