Spires v. City of Los Angeles

The plaintiff, a resident and taxpayer of the city of Los Angeles, and the owner of certain property abutting on what is claimed to be a public park in said city, brought this suit in injunction against the city of Los Angeles, the mayor, and common council, the members of the hoard of library directors, and the members of the board of park commissioners of that city, to restrain them from erecting a public library on a tract of land owned by said city of Los Angeles bounded by Fifth, Hill, Sixth, and Olive streets in that city, and known as Central Park, on the ground that the city, as owner…