In Re Sutter-Butte By-Pass Assessment No. 6

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court, in and for the county of Sutter, three ■judges sitting, purporting to validate an assessment, aggregating in value some eight millions of dollars, spread over certain lands of and in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District.

The controversy presented upon the appeal had its origin in the adoption, in the form of a legislative enactment by the legislature of the state of California, of the report of the California Debris Commission, which provided a plan for the flood control of the Sacramento River. (Stats. 1911 (Ex. Sees.), p.…