Heath

This action was brought by plaintiff as assignee of the contractor, for the purpose of foreclosing a street improvement assessment lien arising out of proceedings conducted by the city of Los Angeles for the improvement of Saticoy Street from Van Nuys Boulevard to Santa Ana Avenue in said city. The complaint .was filed November 14, 1927. It is alleged that the contract for the improvement was awarded October 13, 1926, and the work completed and accepted May 16, 1927. It is further alleged that the assessment and diagram were filed with the city clerk on the sixteenth day of May, 1927, and that thereafter, on the eighth day of June, 1927, a warrant attached to the assessment and diagram and was then and there dated and recorded in the office of the superintendent of streets, and thereupon the assessment covering the property involved became a lien thereon. That thereafter proper demand was made for the payment of the assessment and after the expiration of twenty days after the date of the warrant, the same, together with the assessment and diagram, were returned to the superintendent of streets, after which the regular proceedings were taken. In due course the defendants George A.…