Aden v. City of Vallejo

SMITH, C.

The suit here is to enjoin the city of Vallejo from removing the wharf at the foot of Virginia Street in said city, and erecting a new wharf in its place. The board of trustees are also made defendants, but for convenience of expression, the city will be referred to, eo nomine, as though the sole defendant. The judgment in the lower court was adverse to the plaintiff, who appeals from the same, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff and two associates are the successors of one Powell, to whom, by an ordinance of the city, of date July 10, 1877, there was…