Consolidated Metco, Inc. v. City of Portland

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment in a proceeding brought to determine the validity of Portland Area Local Government Boundary Commission orders annexing certain property to the city of Portland. After the case was argued, we asked the parties to file supplemental memoranda regarding the circuit court’s jurisdiction of the declaratory judgment proceeding. We now conclude that the circuit court did not have jurisdiction. It is therefore our duty to refuse to proceed further. League of Women Voters v. Lane Co. Bndry Comm., 32 Or App 53, 59, 573 P2d 1255, rev den 283 Or 503 (1978);…