Hutton

Hutton v. Newhouse

Good Law
1919 Cal. App. LEXIS 515·41 Cal. App. 689·183 P. 276
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 21, 1919Civ. No. 2926.California1,106 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Richards, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor in an action to foreclose a lien for the 'improvement of a street intersection in the city and county of San Francisco, under the provisions of the ordinance providing for such improvements, pursuant to the terms of section 33, chapter 2, article VI of the charter of said municipality. The appellant urges several points upon appeal. * [1] The first of these is that the complaint was fatally defective in the respect that the street improvement ordinance relied upon was not sufficiently- pleaded. No demurrer was presented to said complaint; no objection was made to the admission in evidence of the ordinance in question. The objection to the sufficiency of the pleading in respect to the passage and approval of said ordinance is for the first time made upon appeal. The belated objection is that the ordinance is pleaded as to its passage, approval, and existence by recital instead of directly. The objection comes too late. It should have been made by special demurrer, and not having been so made must be held to have been waived. (City of Santa Barbara v. Elred, 108 Cal. 294 , [ 41 Pac. 410 ]; Wells Fargo & Co. v. McCarthy, 5…

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