Los Angeles Lighting Co. v. City of Los Angeles

The city council of Los Angeles adopted a resolution of intention, June 5, 1893, for certain improvements on Aliso street, in said city, and at the same time, under the provisions of the act of February 27, 1893 (Stats, of 1893, p. 33), determined that bonds should be issued to pay the cost of the improvement. Within ten days after this resolution of intention had been published and posted, protests against the work, purporting to represent a majority of the frontage on the line of said proposed improvement, were delivered to the clerk of the city council on behalf of the plaintiff and other property owners; but, notwithstanding said protests, that body passed an order authorizing the work to be done, and invited proposals for doing the same. The Bituminous Lime Rock Paving and Improvement Company, one of' the appellants herein, filed with the city clerk its proposal to do the work in accordance with the invitation therefor, and its proposal having been accepted, and the contract awarded to it, the plaintiff commenced this action to enjoin the street superintendent and the said appellants from entering into said contract. The plaintiff had judgment in the court below, and the…