Turrill v. Grattan
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Action to enforce a lien on a lot at the northeast corner of Washington and Baker Streets, San Francisco, fronting one hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet on Washington Street, and running back one hundred and twenty-seven feet eight and one-quarter inches.
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Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Action to enforce a lien on a lot at the northeast corner of Washington and Baker Streets, San Francisco, fronting one hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet on Washington Street, and running back one hundred and twenty-seven feet eight and one-quarter inches. The following petition was, on the 25th of October, 1872, presented to the Board of Supervisors: “We, the undersigned, owners of and in possession of a majority of the property fronting on Washington Street, between Broderick Street and First…
1Opinion of the Court
It does not otherwise appear that the petitioners have or claim to have the requisite frontage. The majority of frontage on Washington Street was not sufficient in this case, because the improvement covers nine intermediate crossings, and the lots on these cross streets, for half a block each way, were liable by law for the grading of the crossings. The petitioners do not claim to have any frontage on the cross streets. They do not say they have a majority of frontage on Washington Street.
J. M. Wood, for Respondent.
That part of the fourth section of the Act of 1872 (Stats. 1872, p. 805)…
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