John Hoagland v. City of Sacramento

The District Court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint and in entering judgment in favor of the *143defendant, because the act entitled “An Act to enable John Hoagland and others to sue the City of Sacramento,” set out in the complaint upon which this action is founded, is a valid act, founded in manifest equity, and is a legitimate exercise of legislative authority, its purpose being to provide a legal remedy to enable the plaintiff to enforce a just and equitable claim (not before enforceable in the Courts) against a municipal corporation for damage caused by a public…