Lewis v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah.: Hartwell Hurley, Judge. This is a suit in equity brought by Cicero H. Lewis, Henry F. Allen, partners as Allen & Lewis, and Mary H. Couch, Geo. H. Flanders, and W. S. Ladd against the City of Portland and others and to restrain them from appropriating to public use without compensation to the owners thereof a strip of land at the foot of Burnside Street in said city.
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Appeal from Multnomah.: Hartwell Hurley, Judge. This is a suit in equity brought by Cicero H. Lewis, Henry F. Allen, partners as Allen & Lewis, and Mary H. Couch, Geo. H. Flanders, and W. S. Ladd against the City of Portland and others and to restrain them from appropriating to public use without compensation to the owners thereof a strip of land at the foot of Burnside Street in said city. The complaint, inter alia, alleges that the plaintiffs are the owners in fee simple and in possession of certain lots therein described, having adjacent thereto several warehouses, and are also the owners…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chiep Justice Lord.
1. Before proceeding to a discussion of the questions involved, it may be said that this strip is in Caroline Couch’s half of the donation claim, and though there is some evidence that there was a plat made of an addition to the city of Portland by John H. Couch in April, eighteen hundred and fifty, there is nothing to show that the locus in quo was dedicated as a public street therein; and even if there was such plat having been made before the donation law was passed, it would not have the effect of constituting a dedication. Any person who should…
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