Parrish v. Stephens
Oregon Supreme Court
Referred from Washington. Ttttr is a suit in chancery by the owner of property on "Water-street, in Portland, to enjoin the proprietors of the town, and their vendees, from erecting buildings on the river bank, in front of the plaintiff’s premises.
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Referred from Washington. Ttttr is a suit in chancery by the owner of property on "Water-street, in Portland, to enjoin the proprietors of the town, and their vendees, from erecting buildings on the river bank, in front of the plaintiff’s premises. The bill was filed in 1850, and an injunction allowed by Pratt, Justice; after which, the proprietors, particularly Coffin, as he states, set on foot a compromise with the citizens, whereby a portion of the levee was to be private property, and the remainder a public way; and pending the negotiation, Coffin and others, claiming under the…
1Opinion of the CourtOkney, J.
In 1815, F.- W. Pettigrove and A. L. Lovejoy, as joint owners, laid out the town of Portland, and caused a plat to be made exhibiting blocks of lots, designated by numbers, with blank spaces between them, which coalesced with each other at their intersections, and with the surrounding blank spaces at the sides of the plat. Near the first row of blocks the Willamette Fiver is laid down at such a distance as to leave a narrow strip between, which, owing to the meanders of the river, is of variable width, being in some places narrower, and in others wider, than the blank spaces between the rows…
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