Court Opinion

ID: 5436775
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 17:55:33.20874+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:52.037588
License: Public Domain

Sawyer, C. J., dissenting:
Action to recover a street assessment in San Francisco. The criticisms upon the complaint are verbal rather than substantial. I think it sufficient.
The only other objection is that there is not only a judgment for a sale of the land upon which the assessment is a charge, but also a personal judgment against the owner, and in the latter respect, under the decision in Taylor v. Palmer, 31 Cal. 241, there is error. The respondent, on the other hand, asks us to reconsider the ease of Taylor v. Palmer. That is a recent decision by a divided Court, two of the five Judges dissenting.
The question is fully discussed in the several opinions in that case, and I am sure nothing can he added to strengthen the able opinion of the majority. Yet I am still unable to concur in the conclusion attained, for reasons fully stated in my dissenting opinions. (31 Cal. 666, 257.) The decision is recent, and 'no rights of property can have vested under it. As the principle involved is important, and as I conceive the rule adopted a departure from the practice everywhere else, from time immemorial, I think it should not be followed.
Under this view the judgment should ho affirmed.