Canby v. Council of City of Los Angeles

The appellants instituted an equitable proceeding, praying that a writ of mandate issue in the superior court requiring the Council of the City of Los Angeles to modify assessments of their properties abutting upon a certain highway, and that they be granted such relief as should be deemed just and equitable. A demurrer to their complaint was sustained, whereupon an amended complaint was filed, praying that the superior court take “equitable cognizance and jurisdiction of the facts” alleged, and of the parties and render “such judgments, orders and relief as may be legal and equitable”; that…