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49 Cal. 285

Himmelmann v. Cahn

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1874

California Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01

On the 3d day of August, 1868, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco resolved to grade Jackson street from Polk street to Van Ness avenue. Such proceedings were had that a contract was entered into with John Hammill, and he performed the work. He assigned his demand to Himmelmann.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1917

3 state decisions

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Decided 1874-07-01

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Rhodes, J., dissenting in part:

¶1The notice inviting sealed proposals for doing the work was published between 3 and 4 o’clock P. M. of the 25th of August, and immediately thereafter a slip was cut from the newspaper and posted, and both the publication and the posting ended on the 29th of August. The statute (Sec. 6) provides that “the Board of Supervisors shall cause notice to be conspicuously posted in the office of the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, and published for five days, inviting sealed proposals for the work contemplated.” The prevailing opinion does not question the sufficiency of the publication; and, as I construe the statute, no greater period is required for the posting than for the publication of the notice. The statute has assigned one and the same period for each, and I see nothing in the nature of those acts which requires or authorizes the Court to regard fractions of a day in one case, and not in the other, and thus require a longer period for the posting than for the publication of the notice.

¶2I concur, however, with my associates, in holding that the nonsuit was properly granted as to the second count of the complaint, on the ground that the assessment contains no description of the property sought to be charged.

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