State v. Port of Astoria
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clatsop: James A. Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. This is a suit on the relation of C. W. Mullins, District Attorney of Clatsop County, against the Port of Astoria, a municipal corporation, and Gr. B. McLeod and others, commissioners of the port.
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From Clatsop: James A. Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Harris. This is a suit on the relation of C. W. Mullins, District Attorney of Clatsop County, against the Port of Astoria, a municipal corporation, and Gr. B. McLeod and others, commissioners of the port. In 1909 the legislature enacted a law "to provide for incorporation under general law of ports in counties bordering upon bays or rivers navigable from the sea or containing bays or rivers navigable from the sea, and to provide for the manner of incorporating such ports and defining the powers of ports so incorporated." The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harris
It will be observed from the foregoing statement that the situation presented here is one where the Port of Astoria was incorporated in 1910 under a general law which was enacted in 1909, and which did not, at the time of the incorporation of the Port of Astoria, in-*8elude the power to acquire and operate boats for the transportation of passengers and freight; in 1915 the general law was amended so as to add to the powers of a port, previously enumerated and defined by the act of 1909, the right to maintain boats for the transportation of freight and passengers; the legal voters of the port…
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