Foeller v. Housing Authority of Portland

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a decree in favor of the defendants, which the circuit court entered after it had sustained a motion made by them for judgment in their favor upon the pleadings. The proceeding was instituted pursuant to the provisions of our Declaratory Judgments Act. Its main purpose was to secure a ruling as to the validity of Oregon Laws 1951, ch 373, which the parties term the Urban Redevelopment Law. The attacked decree sustained that statute as valid.

The plaintiffs (appellants) are the owners of an item of real property which is situated in a part of the city of…