Buell v. Deschutes County Municipal Improvement District

Plaintiff, W. E. Buell, appeals from a judgment in favor of defendant, Deschutes County Municipal Improvement District.

It appears that plaintiff sued to recover the face amounts of certain bonds, interest and a warrant issued by the defendant district in 1921-23. All the obligations sued on were outlawed excepting certain bonds in the amount of $2,000, which the plaintiff had judgment on. The Court based its judgment on defendant’s defense, that the statute of limitations had run.

The plaintiff contends that since the defendant district periodically filed with the State Engineer, the State…