Adamson

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants entered after an order sustaining a general demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint without leave to amend.

The action is one in which the plaintiff, as a resident and taxpayer of Los Angeles County, seeks to enjoin said county and its board of supervisors from proceeding with the expenditure of public money and with the employment of county officials and employees, and the use of county tools and appliances and materials, upon the construction of a certain roadway upon and along a certain right of way forty feet in width and about twenty-two miles in length, extend ing into and over certain private property known as the Malibu ranch, owned by the Bindge Company, a corporation. The complaint sets forth at length the proceedings had and taken before and by the board of supervisors of said county purporting to authorize the institution of an action on behalf of said coilnty for the .condemnation of the strip of land in question for the purposes of such highway, and also the institution and proceedings in such action resulting in a judgment in favor of said county condemning a right of way over said strip of land, and…