Mayor of Los Angeles v. Signoret
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventeenth Judicial District, County of Los Angeles. Action to enforce a lien on a lot in the city of Los Angeles for an assessment levied on the lot for the construction of a sewer.
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Appeal from the District Court, Seventeenth Judicial District, County of Los Angeles. Action to enforce a lien on a lot in the city of Los Angeles for an assessment levied on the lot for the construction of a sewer. The lien was sought to be enforced under the provisions of the act to incorporate said city, passed March 11, 1850, and the amendments thereto approved April 4, 1850, and February 20, 1872. The complaint merely alleged that in pursuance of the facts set forth in a notice and claim of lien recorded in Book No. 1, of Mechanics’ Liens, pages 251, et seq., recorder’s office Los…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
Several matters of substance are lacking in the averments found in the complaint, which are sought to be supplied only by reference to the recitals found in an-exhibit annexed to the complaint—“and to which (exhibit) for all particular allegations therein contained, reference is hereby made,” etc. This is not sufficient in pleading.
Judgment reversed and cause remanded, with directions to sustain the demurrer to the complaint.
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