Watson v. City of Salem
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mb. Justice Habéis. This suit involves the validity of a local assessment for a street improvement. Notwithstanding a remonstrance filed by certain property owners the city entered into a contract for the paving of South 12th Street between Mission Street and the south city limits; and upon the completion of the improvement a special assessment was levied upon the abutting property for the cost of the pavement.
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From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mb. Justice Habéis. This suit involves the validity of a local assessment for a street improvement. Notwithstanding a remonstrance filed by certain property owners the city entered into a contract for the paving of South 12th Street between Mission Street and the south city limits; and upon the completion of the improvement a special assessment was levied upon the abutting property for the cost of the pavement. Claiming that the assessment was void George J. Watson and twenty-two others commenced this suit for the purpose of…
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Denied June 19, 1917.
'On Petition por Rehearing,
(164 Pae. 1184.)
On petition for rehearing. Rehearing denied.
Mr. Bert W. Macy, City Attorney, Mr. Grant Corby, Mr. William H. Trindle, Mr. H. D. Roberts, Mr. Rollin K. Page and Mr. Woodson T. Slater, for the petition.
Mr. Claire M. Inman and Mr. John H. Carson, contra.
*675Department 2. Statement by
Me. Justice Haeeis.
5. In a petition for a rehearing filed in this and in the companion case of Albert v. Salem, the city contends that Section 531, L. O. L., does not apply to the measurement of time for the publication of notices by cities or towns. The…
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