Chase
Chase v. City Treasurer of Los Angeles
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Chipman, J.
This action was brought to restrain the city treasurer of Los Angeles from selling the real property of plaintiff to pay the amount claimed to be due by defendant Sheldon on a bond issued against said property under the provisions of the act of March 17, 1891 (Stats. 1891, p. 116), for work on Ohio street in said city, which work was done under the provisions of the so-called Yrooman act of March 18, 1885. (Stats. 1885, p. 147.) A perpetual injunction was prayed for, and that said bond and assessment be declared to be void so far as they affect plaintiff’s property.
The court granted a preliminary injunction. Later an amended complaint was filed, to which defendants demurred for insufficiency of facts. At the hearing the demurrer was sustained; the injunction was dissolved and defendants had judgment, from which and from the order dissolving the injunction plaintiff appeals. By stipulation both appeals are to be heard upon one transcript.
The complaint sets out all the proceedings of the council and the steps taken subsequently leading up to the issuance of the bond provided for by the act of 1891, and sets forth the notice of sale of plaintiff’s property because of default in…