Coughlin

The defendant appeals from a judgment foreclosing the lien of a street assessment on her four lots in Oakland.

The assessment proceedings were under the Street Improvement Act of 1911 as originally adopted. The work was grading, curbing, macadamizing, and guttering one block on Brooklyn Avenue, between Lake Shore Boulevard and Newton Avenue, one block on Wesley Avenue, between Lake Shore Boulevard and Newton Avenue, and the crossing formed by the intersection of Brooklyn, Newton, and Wesley Avenues, in the city of Oakland. Newton Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard are approximately parallel, and Brooklyn Avenue connects them, running at right angles to Newton Avenue. Wesley Avenue runs diagonally across an imaginary square, two sides of which are formed by the lines of Newton Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue, extended, the other sides being represented by lines parallel to the two extended lines. The crossing formed by the intersection of the three avenues is represented by the triangle formed between the sides of Newton Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue, extended, and the lower diagonal side of Wesley Avenue. The total cost of the work, with expenses, was $5,400.50, of which $1,630.90…