Wilcox v. Engebretsen

This is an action by an abutting property-owner to enjoin the city council of San Diego and Engebretsen, as contractor under a street-grading contract, from proceeding to reduce the street surface in front- of the plaintiff’s property to the established grade. It is alleged that if the level of said street is made to conform to the established grade, as proposed, the plaintiff’s property, at the east end, will be fifteen feet above the level of the street and that, at the west end, the street will be eleven feet higher than the surface of his property, and that the consequence of the doing of…