Cooper v. Reardon

The plaintiffs, as abutting property owners along a public street in San Francisco, brought this action to set aside an assessment for improvement of the street levied under the San Francisco street improvement ordinance of 1918. The defendants are the members of the board of public works of the city and county and the contractor who performed the work which was the basis of the assessment. The cause was tried by the court and judgment went for the defendants from which the plaintiffs appeal under section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

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