State Highway Commission v. Efem Warehouse Co.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, State Highway Commission of the state of Oregon, from that portion of a final judgment in a condemnation proceeding which awarded to defendant, Efem Warehouse Co., an Oregon corporation, costs and disbursements and an attorney’s fee.

Efem Warehouse Co. was the owner of a tract of land in the city of Portland, which was needed for right of way purposes in the construction of the T. H. Banfield Expressway through Sullivan gulch in said city. After negotiating, without success, for the purchase of said land, pursuant to the provisions of OBS 366.370, the…