Blochman v. Spreckels

CHIPMAN, C.

Defendant became the purchaser of certain lots belonging to plaintiff in the city of Coronado, at a sale for non-payment of interest on a bond issued to a contractor to represent the assessment against plaintiff’s said lots for street work. The action is to restrain defendant from applying for a deed and to quiet plaintiff’s title, as against said sale. Plaintiff had judgment, from which and from the order denying his motion for a new trial defendant appeals.

The controversy grows out of the improvement of Orange Avenue in said city, which improvement was made under the Street…