State v. McVey

This suit was instituted by the state land board in the name of the state of Oregon against Sam McVey, doing business under the name of McVey Sand & Gravel Company, for an accounting by the defendant to the state land board with reference to sand, rock, and gravel removed by the defendant from the bed of the Willamette river, a navigable stream, and to enjoin the defendant from further removing such materials. From a decree dismissing the suit the plaintiff has appealed.

In the fall of 1926 the defendant began taking, and until the present time has continued to take sand and gravel from the…