State Ex Rel. v. Port of Cascade Locks

This is an action in the nature of quo loarranto, brought in the name of the State of Oregon on the relation of a private citizen, against the port of Cascade Locks, designated as a pretended municipal corporation, and the members of the board of commissioners of such corporation. The circuit court entered judgment in favor of the defendants, and the plaintiff has appealed.

The principal question here involved is whether the territorial limits of the port as proposed by the petition for its incorporation extend “beyond the natural watershed of any drainage basin whose waters flow into another…