Meuser v. Risdon
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. This was an action to recover eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents, the amount of an assessment levied on lots in San Francisco for grading the street opposite to their fronts. The complaint asked that the above amount be decreed a lien on the lots, and that they be sold. No personal judgment was prayed for.
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Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. This was an action to recover eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents, the amount of an assessment levied on lots in San Francisco for grading the street opposite to their fronts. The complaint asked that the above amount be decreed a lien on the lots, and that they be sold. No personal judgment was prayed for. The case was tried by the Court below on the following agreed statement of facts: The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, having regularly declared…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sanderson, J. :
The sixth section of the statute in relation to the improvement of streets in San Francisco (Stats. 1862, p. 398) provides among other things that the Board of Supervisors, before giving out contracts for street work, shall cause public notice to be given, in the manner therein directed, inviting sealed proposals for the performance of the work contemplated; that the Board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder; that notice of the award shall be published for a certain time, within which the owners of the major part of the frontage may elect to…
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