Coos County v. State

In this case we are asked to resolve the respective interests of Coos County and the State of Oregon in a tract of forest property. The county sued to eject the state from the land, claiming title as the result of its foreclosure of a tax lien in 1935. The state responds with arguments challenging the county’s capacity to bring this action against the state, seeking an equitable estoppel against the county’s assertion of title, claiming title to the property by adverse possession, and asserting a right to restitution in the amount of the property’s increase in value during the state’s…