Scheurer v. Columbia-Street Bridge Co.

This suit is brought to restrain the defendant from erecting a bridge across the Wallamet river, between the foot of Madison street, in Portland, and T street, in East Portland. An application for a provisional injunction was heard on the bill and a general demurrer thereto.

The plaintiff is a riparian owner, -whose land has a frontage of 200 feet on the west bank of the Wallamet river, and is situate about 1,000 feet above the site of the proposed bridge; and his complaint is that the erection of the bridge will so obstruct and hinder the navigation of the river as to prevent vessels engaged…