Smith v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is a special proceeding by Albert T. Smith and others to review the action of the common council of the city of Portland in the matter of assessments for the cost of constructing a sewer.
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Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is a special proceeding by Albert T. Smith and others to review the action of the common council of the city of Portland in the matter of assessments for the cost of constructing a sewer. The return to the writ shows that said council, on April twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, passed an ordinance providing for the time and manner of constructing Portland Heights sewer, establishing a sewer district, authorizing the committee on sewers and drainage to advertise for, receive, and report to the council bids for its construction, to…
1Opinion of the Court
*301Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moore.
1. At the hearing the defendants offered to prove that the plaintiffs, A. T. Smith and others, appeared before the committee on sewers and drainage, and requested it to let the contract for concrete at the price agreed upon, without asking bids therefor, giving as a reason for their request that the season was so far advanced that, further delay would' postpone the work to their damage. The court having sustained an objection to this offer, the defendants took an exception to said ruling which was noted and allowed, and this is assigned as error. “ The…
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