Brown
Brown v. Board of Supervisors
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Harrison, J.
Turk street, in the city and county of San Francisco, between Masonic avenue on the east and St. Joseph’s avenue on the west, was originally laid out with a width of one hundred feet. The board of supervisors of said city and county passed an order April 19, 1897, declaring the northerly thirty-one feet and three inches of said portion of Turk street to be closed and vacated. The appellants herein are owners of lands abutting upon the southerly side of said portion of the street, and instituted the present proceeding for a review of this action of the board of supervisors and a judgment annulling said order, upon the ground that in adopting it the board acted in excess of its jurisdiction. In their application to the superior court they *277 allege their ownership of the abutting lands, and that they had filed with the board written objections to the adoption of the order, but that the board adopted the order without considering these objections, and in disregard thereof. The appellants also alleged that they would sustain injury and their lands be damaged by the closing of that portion of Turk street, and that the said order was adopted without making or providing for any…