City Street Improvement Co. v. Lee

The petitioner, a corporation, filed a petition in the court below for a writ of mandate to force the mayor of the city of Santa Rosa, a municipal corporation, to enter into a contract with the said petitioner for doing certain street work on Santa Rosa Avenue, in said city. .

The respondent, mayor, answered the petition, and certain property owners, whose property abuts upon said street and which would, as a consequence, be assessed for the improvement which had been proposed to be made on said avenue, providing the proceedings were legal and valid, filed a complaint in intervention. The…