Walker

This action was brought by the owners of certain real property, which property was situated within an assessment district intended to be created for the purposes of proceedings taken by the city of Los Angeles through' its board of public works. The design of the proceedings was to open Twelfth Street in said city for a distance of about three blocks. The judgment which was rendered in favor of plaintiffs determined that the assessments under which sales of plaintiffs’ properties were threatened to be made, were void by reason of the fact, as found by the trial court, that the description of the proposed assessment district as contained in the ordinance of intention was indefinite and uncertain. Defendants appealed from the judgment, and from an order of the trial court denying their motion for a new trial.

In the course of the description of the boundary lines of the assessment district as contained in the ordinance of intention, after a course had been traced to a point in the westerly line of Grand Avenue, the ordinance then proceeded: “Thence easterly in a direct line to the most westerly corner of lot 10 of Feldhauser’s subdivision of blocks 85 and 86, Ord’s survey, as per…