City of Los Angeles v. Waldron

Citations

• 65 Cal. 283
• 3 P. 890

Syllabus

<p>Pleading—Condemnation of Land—Municipal Cobpoeation. — A petition by the city of Los Angeles for the condemnation of certain land for a street, recited that the city council “ duly passed and adopted an ordinance in writing ” directing the proceeding, and “ that it is now necessary to condemn said land for public use, agreeebly to the provisions of said ordinance.” Held, that this was a sufficient allegation of the necessity of taking the land for public use.</p> <p>Id.—An averment that an ordinance “was duly passed and adopted,” is a sufficient statement that everything necessary to be done by the city council to give it legal effect had been done.</p> <p>Obdinance—Besolution.— When the charter of a municipal corporation requires it to do certain acts by resolution, it may do the same acts by ordinance.</p>