King v. Portland City
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The object of this suit was to restrain the enforcement of certain street assessments levied upon the property of the plaintiffs in error, under the charter of the city of Portland, Oregon.
The question presented is whether the ordinances under which the assessments were made deprived plaintiffs in error of their property without due process of law, and thereby violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
The assessments were sustained by the trial court, and its judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, (63 Pac. Rep. 2,) and the case was then…
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- King v. PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1900
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