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KAMBISH v. SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER CONSERVATION

Docket No. 18449.

185 Cal.App.2d 107 (1960)

8 Cal. Rptr. 215

CONSTANCE B. KAMBISH, Respondent, v. SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT OF SAN JOSE, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

October 4, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Griswold & Henley, Leon G. Rubino and Cyril Viadro for Appellant.

Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Campbell, Custer, Warburton & Britton and Walter E. Rankin for Respondent.

DRAPER, J.

Defendant water conservation district appeals from judgment on jury verdict awarding plaintiff damages to land and personalty sustained when her property was flooded in 1955.

The purpose of defendant district is to store water during the rainy season and release it, during the dry months, into streams and percolation areas whence it seeps into the underground gravel strata underlying the Santa Clara Valley. It is not a flood control district.

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