What is a right of action against the municipality for damages caused by the loss of access to the street in front of a residential lot?

'The property which an abutting owner has in the street in front of his land is the right of access and of light and air, and for an infringement of these rights he is entitled to compensation. This right is peculiar and individual to the abutting owner, differing from the right of passing to and fro upon the street, which he enjoys in common with the public, and any infringement thereof gives him a right of action. Dill. Mun. Corp. 712. In Eachus v. [Los Angeles] Railway Co., 103 Cal. 614, 37 Pac. 750, the right which the abutting owner has to the use of the street fronting upon his lot is defined to be an easement therein for the purposes of ingress and egress, which attaches to the lot, and in which he has a right of property as fully as that which he has in the lot itself, and any act of the municipality by which that easement is destroyed or substantially impaired for the benefit of the public is a damage to

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See also Goycoolea v. City of Los Angeles, 207 A.C.A. 769, 24 Cal.Rptr. 719.