Lloyd v. City of Redondo Beach

GRAY, J., pro tem.

Certain property owners within an assessment district, who sued to enjoin respondents from executing a contract awarded pursuant to proceedings had under the “Improvement Act of 1911” for the extension of the municipal pier, appeal from a judgment of nonsuit.

Their first point is that they should have been allowed to prove that no permit for such extension had ever been obtained from the federal authorities as required by an act of Congress of March 3, 1899 (U. S. Code, Ann., title 33, sec. 401, p. 377) and that, upon such proof, they were entitled to the injunction, as, in…