Gooch v. Rogers

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs, owners of a tract of reforestation land, from a declaratory judgment which held that the penalty provision of § 107-125, O.C.L.A., is valid, and that the court had no power to relieve the plaintiffs from a penalty which ivas imposed upon, them in the latter part of 1948 under that section of our laws.

The plaintiffs contend that the circuit court erred (1) “in not declaring the penalty provision of O.C.L.A. 107-125 unconstitutional and void”, and (2) “in failing to waive and remit the penalty.”

Section 107-125, O.C.L.A., was § 10 of Oregon Laws 1929, ch.…