Flynn v. Chiappari

The defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs foreclosing certain liens for street work under the street improvement ordinance of San Francisco adopted in 1913. The following rough description of the physical situation, while not strictly accurate, will suffice to illustrate the questions raised herein: Lane Street, running northeast and southwest, is intersected at right angles by Wallace Avenue, running southeast and northwest. These two, in turn, are crossed by Railroad Avenue, running north and south. The last-named street overlaps, in part, the intersection of the two…