Lownsdale v. Portland
District Court, D. Oregon
[This was a suit by J. P. O. Lo-wnsdale against the city of Portland, George C. Robbins, Jacob Davidson, A. D. Shelby, Jacob Stitzel, William S. Higgins, J. C. Ainsworth, M. M. Lucas, E. D. Shattuck, Absalom B. Halleck, Orville Risley, and James H. Lap-pens to quiet title to certain lots in Portland. The case is now heard upon exceptions to amended answer to amended bill.]
1Opinion of the Court
DEADY, District Judge.
This is a suit in. equity to quiet title. The bill alleges that the complainant is a citizen of Indiana, and seized in fee of lots numbered 1, 2 and 3, in block 74, in the town of Portland, and has been so seized and occupied the same since January 1, 1853; and that about July 1, 1860, he commenced to improve said lots by the erection of wharves thereon, and that he con-tiuued to make said improvements without let or hindrance from the defendants until about the time of filing the bill herein — November 9, 1860 — when the defendants threatened to destroy and remove the…
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