Budd v. Multnomah Street Railway Co.

This is an action to recover damages against the defendant, at the rate of one thousand dollars per month, from and after the twenty-third day of October, 1882, for the alleged unlawful disturbance, by the defendant, of the plaintiff in the use and enjoyment of a certain franchise granted by the city of Portland to the plaintiff. The franchise set up in the complaint is the right and privilege to lay down and maintain an iron railroad track or tracks, and to operate street railways within the city of Portland, upon certain streets mentioned in the ordinance making the grant. The grant is made…