Fay Improvement Co. v. Rankenberg

SEAWELL, J.

These actions were brought to foreclose liens for street improvement work done under the order and by the direction of the hoard of trustees of Daly City, county of San Mateo, as provided by the Street Improvement Act, approved April 7, 1911. (Stats, and Amendments 1911, p. 730.) The same questions of law being

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presented by each, they have been consolidated for the purposes of appeal and presented as one cause.

Each complaint contains two causes of action and each cause of action was demurred to on the ground that it failed to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The specific and only defect or ground of demurrer urged or presented by appellants is that the complaints fail to allege the establishment by said city of an official line and grade; further, that they fail to allege that the work was done to the official line and grade. Said demurrers were overruled. Appellants answered and the court rendered a judgment in each case confirming the validity of the assessment liens imposed upon the property of appellants. The appeals are taken upon the judgment-rolls alone.

The findings of the court are amply supported by the records of the proceedings taken by the board of trustees.

In addition to alleging all necessary jurisdictional matters, the complaints contain the following allegation:

“That on the 12th day of July, 1920, the city engineer of said city of Daly City furnished to and filed with the city council of said city proper plans and specifications for constructing and completing certain public work and improvement in said city of Daly City, which said public work and improvement is hereinafter particularly set forth and described. That thereupon, to wit, on the same day last mentioned, the said city council by its resolution No. 186, duly adopted and approved said plans and specifications, and on the same day, to wit, the said 12th day of July, 1920, the said city council duly and regularly passed and adopted Resolution of Intention No. 19” in words and figures following, to wit: (The resolution in full follows.)

“All of said work is to be done to the official line and grade in accordance with the said plans and specifications on file with the city clerk of said city of Daly City by the city engineer thereof on the 12th day of July, 1920, and which plans and specifications were adopted by the said board of trustees on the 12th day of July, 1920, as the official plans and specifications for said work, and reference is hereby made to said plans and specifications for further description of the said work and of the locations at which same is to be done and for further particulars.”