City of Vancouver v. Wintler

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

— The respondent, a city of the third class, seeks in this action to foreclose certain liens for street assessments against parcels of land abutting on the street and owned in severalty by the appellants. There were originally three separate actions, but under stipulation they came up as one case.

1. The first point made by appellants is, that the general ordinance governing street assessments was void because not passed in the manner required by the statute* The law governing the passage qf ordinances is contained in Gen. Stat., § 635, the…