CHESEBRO v. LOS ANGELES CTY. DIST.

No. 368.

306 U.S. 459 (1939)

CHESEBRO v. LOS ANGELES COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Bourke Jones, with whom Messrs. Ray L. Chesebro, Frederick Von Schrader, and William H. Neal were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. W.B. McKesson, with whom Mr. U.T. Clotfelter was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant maintains that a California statute authorizing an administrative board to levy special assessments on his land within a flood control district created by the legislature to pay cost of local improvements and facilities and of their operation, maintenance, and betterment, without providing him an opportunity to be heard on the question of benefits, is repugnant to the due process clause of the Fourteenth...

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