Chesebro v. Los Angeles County Flood Control District

Appellant maintains that a California statute authorizing an administrative board to levy special assessments on his land within a flood control district created by the legislature to pay cost of local improvements and facilities and of their operation, maintenance, and betterment, without providing him an opportunity to be heard on the question of benefits, is repugnant to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Chapter 755, Statutes 1915/ creates the Los Angeles flood control district. Section 2 declares that the purposes of the act are to provide for the control of the flood and…