Valley Honey v. East Bay Municipal Utility Dist. C
In any negligence suit, a plaintiff must demonstrate “ ‘a legal duty to use due care, a breach of such legal duty, and [that] the breach [is] the proximate or legal cause of the resulting injury.’ ” (Beacon Residential Community Assn. v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (2014) 59 Cal.4th 568, 573.) In this case, plaintiffs Valley Honey, Inc. and Christobal Espinosa (collectively plaintiffs) sued defendant East Bay Municipal Utility District (district) for general negligence after plaintiffs’ property (several beehives) located along or on the banks of a river on others’ lands was destroyed when the district increased water releases from Camanche Dam (the dam). Plaintiffs alleged the district owed them a duty of care to provide prior notification of its decision to increase water releases from the dam. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the district on the element of duty and dismissed plaintiffs’ suit.
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