Newport Building Corp. v. City of Santa Ana

SHEPARD, J.—

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for refund of fees allegedly paid under coercion.

Pacts

Plaintiff owned land in defendant city. It prepared and graded said land for subdivision purposes, subdivided it into tracts of residential building lots, and built thereon for purposes of sale, single family residences. Tract 3296 consisted of 97 lots. On May 3,1954, defendant enacted chapter 3 of article IX, under the title 1 ‘ Subdivision regulations, ’ ’ in which chapter is provided a detailed set of regulations covering design, improvement, advisory…