Millsap

Appeal by defendant from a judgment "foreclosing the lien of a street assessment made under the act commonly known as the “Vrooman Act,” (Stats. 1885, c. 153).

The work for which the assessment was levied was the laying of a concrete cement sidewalk five feet wide along the south side of Clover Street in the city of Woodland from Westcott Street to Walnut Street, a distance of six blocks, excepting the portions thereof where concrete cement sidewalks had already been constructed and accepted. Balfour owned a lot abutting Clover Street on the north side, fronting thereon for a distance of 186 feet, situated on the northwest corner of First and Clover streets, opposite a part of one of the blocks included in the improvement ordered. The work was ordered by resolution adopted on January 21, 1907. Prior to that date Balfour, at his own expense, had laid a concrete cement sidewalk five feet wide in front of his lot, both on Clover Street and on First Street. It was laid upon the official grade, it complied with, the specifications then required by the city, it was constructed in pursuance of permission from the city council, and on January 21, 1907, it was in perfect order and in a…