Multnomah County v. Adams
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah County. This is an action brought by the county of Multnomah against W. H. Aclams, for the recovery of certain fines collected by him from defendants in state cases.
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Appeal from Multnomah County. This is an action brought by the county of Multnomah against W. H. Aclams, for the recovery of certain fines collected by him from defendants in state cases. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is a duly organized public corporation; that Adams is the police judge of the city of Portland, a duly organized municipal corporation; that in virtue of the incorporation act or charter, the police judge of said municipality is ex officio justice of the peace; that acting as such, he has enforced the provisions of the criminal code over which the justice’s…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, McArthur, J.:
That the legislative assembly, in creating the office of police judge of the city of Portland, had authority to invest that officer with the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace within the city limits, has been so often decided that the question must be regarded as fully settled, and such authority fully established. (Ryan v. Harris, 2 Or. 175; Craig v. Mosier, 2 Id. 323; State v. Wiley, 4 Id. 184; and Portland v. Dening, 5 1d. 160.) Nor is the principal question presented entirely new. In Ryan v. Harris, supra, we passed upon art. IV., sec. 23, subd. 1, of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ryan v. HarrisOregon Supreme Court · 1866
3Cited by2 opinions
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