Peter R. Gadd, Inc. v. Workman

The petitioner herein has applied for a writ of mandate wherein it seeks to compel the respondents, the city council of the city of Los Angeles and the members thereof, to confirm a certain assessment made in the course of a certain street improvement proceeding within what is known as the Adams Street and Smiley Drive Improvement District, which improvement had been initiated and thus far carried forward under and in pursuance of the “Improvement Act of 1911” [Stats. 1911, p. 730], and its subsequent supplementary or amendatory enactments. Said public improvement had been initiated through…