Bucknall v. Story
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. In 1864 (Laws 1863-4, p. 347), the Legislature passed an Act empowering the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to lay out, open, extend, or widen any street in said city, and to determine what property would be benefited by the proposed improvement and ought to bear the expense thereof, and to assess the expense upon the property declared to be…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. In 1864 (Laws 1863-4, p. 347), the Legislature passed an Act empowering the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to lay out, open, extend, or widen any street in said city, and to determine what property would be benefited by the proposed improvement and ought to bear the expense thereof, and to assess the expense upon the property declared to be benefited. Under this Act the Board of Supervisors determined to widen Kearny street, and commenced proceedings to do so on…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
This is an action to recover a sum of money, paid under protest by the plaintiffs to the defendant, as a Tax Collector, for an assessment on their land for the widening of Kearny street, in San Francisco; the .property in question being situated within the district defined by the Board of Supervisors as that which would be benefited by the improvement. The assessment is alleged to have been illegal on the ground that in the report of the Commissioners appointed to make the valuations and assess the benefits, the plaintiffs’ land was assessed as the property of E. L.…
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