City of Idanha v. Consumers Power, Inc.

Defendant, by this, appeal, challenges the validity of a decree on mandate entered by the trial court following our decision on the merits on a previous appeal in this case. City of Idanha v. Consumers Power, 8 Or App 551, 495 P2d 294 (1972). So far as material to an understanding of the issues which defendant seeks to raise on this appeal, the thrust of our decision in Idanha was that while plaintiff city had legal authority to enact the ordinance (No. 6) imposing license fees on public utilities operating within the city, plaintiff could not by such ordinance forbid defendant, a nonprofit…