Chance v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This suit was instituted on October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, by twenty-seven property owners whose lots abut upon Second and South Second Streets, between the south line of Montgomery Street and the south line of Sheridan Street, in the City of Portland, to restrain the defendants from collecting an assessment levied for the purpose of making a street improvement.
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Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This suit was instituted on October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, by twenty-seven property owners whose lots abut upon Second and South Second Streets, between the south line of Montgomery Street and the south line of Sheridan Street, in the City of Portland, to restrain the defendants from collecting an assessment levied for the purpose of making a street improvement. On June fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the plaintiffs and others, being the owners of more than two thirds of the adjacent property, petitioned the common…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Wolverton.
It is conceded by the plaintiffs that the local assessment now under consideration, and all proceedings pertaining thereto, up to and inclusive of the letting of the contract to Jasper Ward, were and are perfectly regular, and within the legitimate powers of the common council of the City of Portland; but it is contended that the contractor *291did not make the improvement in all respects in compliance with the ordinance, and that therefore the assessment is void, and the plaintiffs are entitled to a perpetual injunction against the enforcement thereof. It is…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Emery v. BradfordCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
- City of Henderson v. LambertCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1878
- Town of Elma v. CarneyWashington Supreme Court · 1894
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- Dennis v. WillaminaOregon Supreme Court · 1916
- Shannon v. PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1900
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