Urban Renewal Agency v. Starr Foods, Inc.

This is an appeal in a condemnation case challenging the amount of the attorney fee awarded to defendant Starr Foods, Inc. pursuant to ORS 35.345. ① Defendant cross-appeals on the issue of certain witness fees denied it by the trial court.

Plaintiff is the condemner of certain property in Salem on which was located defendant’s cannery. Plaintiff offered $223,420 for the property and alleged in its complaint that the value of the property was the same. The trial lasted 16 days. The primary issue at the trial was whether certain equipment in the cannery should be considered as part of the…