Stokes

This is an appeal on the part of the defendant individually and as the executrix of the last will of her deceased husband, Joseph H. T. Watkinson, from a judgment of foreclosure of certain street assessment liens.

The property affected by the action consisted of a large number of lots situate along the northeasterly side of Pullman Avenue, in the city of Richmond, all of which lots belonged to the appellant’s testator in’his lifetime. The street improvement in question consisted of certain sewer construction work along the line of Pullman Avenue, performed under and pursuant to the provisions of the Street Improvement Act, approved April 7, 1911 [Stats. 1911, p. 730], and having its inception in the month of August, 1914, through the passage of a resolution of intention to make said improvement by the council of the city of Richmond on that date. The work proceeded thereafter under said act until its completion, approval, and acceptance by the street commissioner of said city in the month of March, 1915, whereupon the sáid superintendent of streets proceeded to make the assessments against the several lots owned by the defendant’s testator, who was then still living, and also to…