Mead v. Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Alered F. Sears, Jr., Arthur L. Frazer, and Melvin C. George, Judges, in joint session. This is a suit by Joshua Roberts Mead and others against the City of Portland and its officers to enjoin and restrain the defendants from closing a passageway in the approach to Morrison Street Bridge, leading to the lower floors of plaintiffs’ wharves.
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From Multnomah: Alered F. Sears, Jr., Arthur L. Frazer, and Melvin C. George, Judges, in joint session. This is a suit by Joshua Roberts Mead and others against the City of Portland and its officers to enjoin and restrain the defendants from closing a passageway in the approach to Morrison Street Bridge, leading to the lower floors of plaintiffs’ wharves. The complaint, after alleging that the plaintiffs are the owners of block 76 and lots 3 and 4 in block 77 in the City of Portland, that such property is bounded on the east by the Willamette River, on the west by Front Street, and is divided…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Bean,
after stating the facts in th.e foregoing terms, delivered the opinion of the court.
The only substantial difference between this case and that of Brand v. Multnomah County, 38 Or. 79 (60 Pac. 390, 62 Pac. 209, 50 L. R. A. 389, 84 Am. St. Rep. 772), is that the plaintiffs here assert that the ordinances authorizing the construction by their predecessors in interest of wharves in front of their property, and extending over and across the foot of Morrison Street, and the subsequent construction of such wharves, conferred upon them vested rights, of which they cannot be deprived…
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