Portland General Electric Co. v. City of Estacada

Appeal by the city of Estacada from a decree restraining and enjoining it from including within its boundaries the “River Mill Plant” belonging to plaintiff which the city sought to annex under ch. 210, Oregon Laws 1949. The decree held that the annexation proceedings were void as to plaintiff’s property since they were instituted for the sole purpose of taxing plaintiff’s land and were unreasonable and unlawful, and also enjoined the assessor and the sheriff from assessing the property and collecting taxes on it, respectively.

The city’s first proposition, raised on appeal for the first time…