Stoner

This proceeding was instituted in the superior court of Los Angeles county to obtain a writ of review directed to the city council of the city of Los Angeles.

The controversy grows out of the opening of Grand avenue from Temple street to California street, the proceedings for the opening of which were had and taken under the street opening act of 1903. (Stats. 1903, p. 376.) It appears from the verified petition that appellants are the owners of lots and lands located within the district established by said council as being benefited by the opening of said street, and upon which the cost of such opening was apportioned by an assessment duly made upon the parcels of land located within the boundaries thereof. The assessment and diagram were filed with the city clerk, who thereupon gave notice of such filing by publication for a period of ten days, the first publication of said notice being made on the eighteenth day of October, 1907. On November 15, 1907, and within thirty days after the first publication of said notice appellants filed objections to said assessment. It appears from said petition that no action was taken by said council upon these objections until Monday, December…