Boorman v. City of Santa Barbara
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the county of Santa Barbara. The proceeding was a writ of certiorari to review certain proceedings of the mayor and common council of the city of Santa Barbara in changing, opening, and laying out several streets, and making assessments for these purposes under the provisions of the Act of March 26, 1878. (Stats. 1877-78, p. 777.) The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
1. The Act of March 26, 1878 (Stats. 1877—78, p. 777), authorizes the common council of the city of Santa Barbara to lay out, etc., any one street between certain termini, upon presentation of a petition signed by the owners representing a majority of the frontage “upon the proposed improvement.” The act does not contemplate the presentation in one petition of a prayer or demand for the improvement or laying out of more than one street, nor empower the council “to open, extend, widen, straighten, or close up” a great number of streets in one proceeding.
Such is not the ordinary…
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