# Strong v. County of Santa Cruz

> California Supreme Court · December 15, 1975 · 15 Cal. 3d 720

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9940155

## Case

- **Full name:** ROBERT S. STRONG Et Al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ, Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 15, 1975
- **Citations:** 15 Cal. 3d 720; 125 Cal. Rptr. 896; 543 P.2d 264; 1975 Cal. LEXIS 264
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Sullivan
- **Judges:** Mosk, Sullivan
- **Cited by:** 93 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that the doctrine of equitable estoppel “provides that a person may not deny the existence of a state of facts if he intentionally led another to believe a particular circumstance to be true and to rely upon such a belief to his detriment”

## Opinion text

While I agree with the conclusion of the majority that the county should not be estopped in the circumstances of this case, I reach that result on the sole ground that the developer had knowledge of the invalidity of his permit prior to seeking the approvals in question. To the extent that the majority rest their holding upon the county's asserted lack of actual knowledge of the invalidity of the permit, I must respectfully express my disagreement with their reasoning. In my view the county, having issued the permit, cannot be heard to maintain that it had no knowledge of its expiration date. Accordingly, the state of its actual knowledge can have no relevance to the matter of estoppel. With this limitation, I concur in the majority opinion. *Page 729

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