Coffin v. City of Portland

This appeal comes here from the Circuit Court for the county of Multnomah. It is from a decree of that court sustaining a demurrer to the appellants’ complaint. It is alleged in the complaint that appellants are the heirs at law of Stephen Coffin, deceased; that said Coffin, David H. Lownsdale, and W. W. Chapman were the town proprietors of the town of Portland, and that in 1850, in laying off said town, they attempted to dedicate certain premises as a public “levee”; that they made and published a map of the town, on which they designated them as a “public levee”; that in a subsequent…