Fey v. City of Salem
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. This is a suit by Daniel J. Fry and Nettie E. Fry to quiet title against the City of Salem, and to free plaintiff’s property from an alleged illegal assessment and lien for a street improvement. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, the city appeals. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit to quiet title involving the validity of an assessment upon the plaintiffs’ property for a street improvement.
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From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. This is a suit by Daniel J. Fry and Nettie E. Fry to quiet title against the City of Salem, and to free plaintiff’s property from an alleged illegal assessment and lien for a street improvement. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, the city appeals. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit to quiet title involving the validity of an assessment upon the plaintiffs’ property for a street improvement. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, defendant city appeals. The following proceedings appear from the record: On April 1, 1912, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
The defendant city sets forth all the proceedings leading up to the making of the assessment which it asserts is a valid lien upon the real property. Plaintiffs contest the sufficiency of the procedure to support the assessment and claim that the city authorities had no jurisdiction or authority to make the same. It will be' observed that the notice to the property owners of the proposal to make the improvement of South High Street described the part to be paved as being “from the south line of Mill Greek to the south line of Bush Street,” while the resolution of the common council…
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