Appeal of S. O. Houghton
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of the City and County of San Francisco. This was a proceeding under the provisions of an Act of the Legislature, entitled “An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to modify the grades of certain streets,” approved March 30th, 1868 (Stats. 1867-8, p. 594), and an Act amendatory thereof, approved February 1st, 1870 (Stats. 1869-70, p. 41). After the grading had been done, the Commissioners appointed by…
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Appeal from the County Court of the City and County of San Francisco. This was a proceeding under the provisions of an Act of the Legislature, entitled “An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to modify the grades of certain streets,” approved March 30th, 1868 (Stats. 1867-8, p. 594), and an Act amendatory thereof, approved February 1st, 1870 (Stats. 1869-70, p. 41). After the grading had been done, the Commissioners appointed by the Board of Supervisors heard the evidence of the parties interested, and submitted their report to the County Court,…
1ConcurrenceWallace, J.
The judgment of the County Court, which is the subject of this appeal, was rendered upon a Commissioner’s report, filed before it, after recommitment of a previous report, under the provisions of an Act of March 30th, 1868, and the Act of February 1st, 1870, amendatory thereof authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to modify the grades of certain streets. By the amendatory statute it is enacted, that “the said County Court shall have power to render a judgment as to said report, or as to any of the matter therein contained; and such judgment of said…
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