Dowling v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. J. C. B. Hebbard, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtAngellotti, J.
This is an action to foreclose the lien of an assessment for street-improvement work. Plaintiff had judgment, and certain defendants appeal therefrom.
1. It is contended that no jurisdiction was ever acquired by the board of supervisors to order the work, because no resolution of intention properly or officially authenticated was ever passed or adopted.
The plaintiff made a prima facie ease by introducing in evidence the assessment, diagram, warrant, return, and engineer’s certificate. To overcome the case thus made defendants produced as a witness an assistant clerk of the board of…
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