Bauer v. Poppen

Petitioner sought a writ of mandamus ordering the county clerk of Clackamas county to bring his system of recording certain documents, including trust deeds, into conformity with petitioner’s interpretation of ORS 192.060. Following a hearing, the circuit court dismissed the alternative writ and this appeal followed.

Petitioner is an attorney who makes regular use *476of the public records maintained by defendant county clerk. The evidence brought out at the hearing in the circuit court shows that the defendant county clerk has a recording system which utilizes microfilm. Defendant copies recorded…