Jennings v. Le Roy
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The action was brought to collect an assessment upon lots fronting on Bay Street, in the city and county of San Francisco, for grading that street under the act of the legislature passed April 1, 1878, entitled “ an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco to order Bay Street graded, and to change its grade.”
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The action was brought to collect an assessment upon lots fronting on Bay Street, in the city and county of San Francisco, for grading that street under the act of the legislature passed April 1, 1878, entitled “ an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco to order Bay Street graded, and to change its grade.” Section one of the act authorized and empowered the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco to order…
1Opinion of the CourtMyrick, J.
The Act of April 1, 1878 (Stats. 1877-78, p. 931), must be construed as having the effect of changing the *401grade of Bay Street at the points therein designated, and of authorizing that street, between the termini named, to be graded to the line of grade thereby established, without a petition from property owners. At the time of the passage of that act there was no constitutional objection to its passage. It was competent' for the legislature to pass the act, even though it might, in effect, repeal or modify some provisions.of existing laws, and that without re-enacting the statutes as…
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