Barber v. Board of Supervisors
California Supreme Court
This was a proceeding on a writ of certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court to the Board of Supervisors' of the City' and County of San Francisco, for the purpose of reviewing its action on a street assessment appeal. It appears that on January 6th, 1871, the Superintendent of Streets of that city and county made and issued an assessment for the grading of Townsend street, between Second and Third streets.
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This was a proceeding on a writ of certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court to the Board of Supervisors' of the City' and County of San Francisco, for the purpose of reviewing its action on a street assessment appeal. It appears that on January 6th, 1871, the Superintendent of Streets of that city and county made and issued an assessment for the grading of Townsend street, between Second and Third streets. Peter Donahue and J. G. Eastland appealed therefrom to the Board of Supervisors, and, in their petition of appeal, set forth, among other things, that they were the owners of the one…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
The petitioners claim that the Board of Supervisors exceeded its jurisdiction in entertaining the appeal of Eastland and Donahue from the assessment made by the Superintendent of Streets, and also in setting aside the assessment and ordering a new one to be made. Section twelve of the Consolidation Act as amended in 1863 (Stats. 1863, p. 530) authorizes any person interested in the work, who objects to the correctness or legality of the assessment, to appeal to the Board of Supervisors, stating briefly in writing the objections to the assessment; and it is made the…
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