City of Salem v. Oregon-Washington Water Service Co.

The purposes of this proceeding are to determine whether a special election held in the city of Salem December 15, 1931, was a legal election, and, if so, whether a measure approved on that day by the registered voters of that city, and which now appears as section 90 of the Salem Municipal Charter, conflicts with any legislative enactment of superior authority, or any constitutional provision. For purposes of brevity we shall hereafter refer to the enactment of December 15, 1931, as section 90. Succinctly stated, those portions of it which we deem material to this controversy authorize the…