McDonald v. Dodge

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in a street assessment case, arising in the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. There are only two points made by appellant which need special notice.

1. Appellant’s counsel contends that the record shows a written protest by a majority of the frontage of the property fronting on the proposed work involved in this action (which fact may be taken for the present as true), and that therefore the assessment sued on was void, because section 3 of the street law of 1883, as *113amended by the act…