Stansbury

Two actions were commenced by C. V. Stansbury and H. I. Moore, copartners doing business under the firm name of Stansbury & Moore, against the defendants, J. 0. White, E. B. White, his wife, and Delia W. Chase, to foreclose the liens of a street assessment for improvements made on Gallardo street in the city of Los Angeles. The assessment *434 involved, in one of the cases was on the north seventeen feet of lot 21 in the Villa Tract in said city, for forty dollars and forty-nine cents, and that involved in the other case was on the south sixteen feet of lot 22 in the same tract for thirty-eight dollars and twelve cents.

The defendants filed a general demurrer to each complaint, which was overruled, and then answered. The cases were tried together, and judgments were entered awarding the plaintiffs the relief demanded, with costs and attorneys’ fees. From these judgments the defendants have appealed, the appeals being respectively designated as Nos. 416 and 417.

The cases, as shown by the records and briefs filed, are in all respects identically the same, except as to the lots assessed and the amounts of the assessments, and they may therefore be considered together.

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