People v. Hager

The action is to enforce the payment of an assessment levied on lands of the defendant Hager within swamp land district No. 108. A demurrer to the complaint was overruled by the court and we think correctly. The swamp land district was organized under the act of March 28, 1868, entitled “An act to provide for the management and sale of the lands belonging to the state” (Stats. 1867-68, p. 507), and section 35 of the act provides that if an assessment be delinquent, “the district attorney shall proceed at once against all delinquents in the same manner as is provided by law for the collection…