Killam v. Multnomah County

On September 8, 1882, a plat of what is known as East Portland Homestead was duly filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk of Multnomah county. Joseph Paquet and wife, the then owners of the property, dedicated the streets to the use and benefit of the public forever. Sometime thereafter, the land in question herein, being a part of said East Portland Homestead, was conveyed to the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company. The date of this sale does not appear in the record herein, but was some time in the “Eighties”. On November 6,1918, plaintiff contracted to buy from…