Crawford v. Linn County

By the Court,

Waldo, C. J.:

This case turns on the constitutionality of tbe act of the legislative assembly, approved October 26, 1882, known as the mortgage tax law. The act is alleged to be unconstitutional; first, because it does not provide for equal and uniform taxation, and second, because it is a special law.

In a case that came up before the United States circuit court for the district of Oregon in March, 1884, Dundee *484Mort. &c. Co. v. School District, the act was considered open to both these objections and was accordingly declared unconstitutional and void. When the law was formerly…