Gassner v. McCarthy

The purpose of this action is to test the validity of proceedings instituted by the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, looking to a change of grade on two blocks of Stockton Street in said city and the construction of a tunnel under two other blocks of said street. The steps taken provide for the assessment of the cost of the proposed work and the damage to be caused thereby upon a district declared to be specially benefited. The plaintiff, an owner of property fronting on Stockton Street, within the proposed district, brought this action to enjoin the mayor, the…