Spencer v. City of Los Angeles
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Albert Lee .Stephens, City Attorney, Charles S. Burnell, Assistant City Attorney, and Wm. P. Mealey, Deputy City Attorney, for Appellants. W. W. Hyams, F. E. Davis and Davis & Hyams for Respondents.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
In this action the plaintiffs seek to recover money paid upon assessments for the opening of a street in Los Angeles, under the Street Opening Act of 1903 (Stats. 1903, p. 376). The court below gave judgment in favor of plaintiffs against all of the defendants. The appeal is from the judgment. The record also presents for review an order denying a motion for a new trial.
The ground of the action was that the assessments were invalid and that the payments were made 'by compulsion and under protest. The proposition that the assessments in question were invalid was established by the decision of…
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