Meier v. Portland Cable Railway Co.

The appellant commenced an action in the said Circuit Court against the respondent, a private corporation, to recover the possession of certain real property described as lot No. 2, block No. 44, in Carter’s Addition to the city of Portland, in the county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, as laid out on the duly recorded map and plat of said addition. The appellant alleged in his complaint ownership of the property in fee-simple, his right of possession to it, a wrongful entry and withholding by the respondent, and damages in consequence thereof in the sum of five hundred dollars.

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