Kaslavage v. West Kern County Water Dist

In Kaslavage v. West Kern County Water Dist. (1978) 84 Cal.App.3d 529, the plaintiff was injured while diving from an irrigation pipe into a canal. The plaintiff's attorneys did not discover until several months after the claims period expired that the pipe was not owned by the same public entity that owned the canal. (Id. at pp. 532-533.) The Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's refusal to grant relief under Government Code section 946.6 from the effect of the late filing of the claim, because the evidence established that an "extensive investigation was conducted" and the "investigator's actions were not devoid of diligence." (Kaslavage, at pp. 536-537.)