Rose City Transit Co. v. City of Portland

This review concerns two declaratory judgment proceedings between the City of Portland and the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met) on the one hand and Rose City Transit Co. and Landport Co., Inc., on the other. In the first case, which has been denominated the franchise case (Rose City Transit v. City of Portland, 18 Or App 369, 378-400, 525 P2d 1325 (1974)), Rose City and Landport sought a decree declaring that the City had breached Rose City’s mass transit franchise through improper termination of the franchise. In the second case, the pension case (Rose City…