Henderson v. City of Sheridan
Oregon Supreme Court
From Yamhill: Haery H. Belt, Judge. Department 2. This is a suit brought to enjoin the City of Sheridan from the collection of an improvement upon Bridge Street in said city.
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From Yamhill: Haery H. Belt, Judge. Department 2. This is a suit brought to enjoin the City of Sheridan from the collection of an improvement upon Bridge Street in said city. Section 59 of the charter of Sheridan is as follows: “Such notice must be given by the recorder by order of the council, and must specify with convenient certainty the street, or part thereof, proposed .to be improved, or of which the grade is proposed to be established or altered, and the kind of improvement which is proposed to be made and the time when the council will hear and determine objections and remonstrances…
1Opinion of the CourtMcBRIDE, C. J.
The object of requiring notice of the proposed improvement, and of incorporating therein a description of the improvement with convenient certainty, is to enable the property owners abutting the street to be improved to make a reasonable estimate of the probable cost, so as to determine whether or not he will remonstrate against the proceeding. Of course, such description is not required to be technically accurate, but only as nearly so as the circumstances will reasonably permit. Such a description, with plans and specifications, must be made in any event, before the contract is let; and a…
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