City of Portland v. Meyer
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Thos. A. Stephens, Judge. H. Meyer was convicted of violating an ordinance of tbe City of Portland prohibiting the maintenance of any slaughter houses within the corporate limits.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
By subdivision 23 of section 35 of the charter of the City of Portland (Laws, 1893, 822) the council has power and authority “to license, tax, control and regulate slaughter houses * * * and to provide for their exclusion from the city limits or any part thereof.” In January, 1894, while this provision of the charter was in force, the defendant erected or caused to be erected a slaughter house within the corporate limits of the city, and in September following the council passed an ordinance making it unlawful for any person to maintain such a structure therein. For a violation of this…
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