East St. Johns Shingle Co. v. City of Portland

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendant city in two actions tried together before a jury. The complaints in both are identical in form. Each is an action for damages alleged to have been caused by the city of Portland in dumping raw sewage into the Columbia slough, a navigable body of fresh water situated in Multnomah county. It is about 18 miles in length, south of and adjacent t'o the Columbia river, and extends generally along the northerly boundary of the city outside the city limits. The flow from the city’s sewers represents drainage from approximately 7,120 acres…