Bays v. Trulson
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action by John Bays to recover the possession of lots five and eight in block eighty-seven of Couch’s Addition to Portland, to which the plaintiff claims title by virtue of a deed from the chief of police of said city upon a sale of said lots for an alleged delinquent assessment; while the defendant claims title by mesne conveyances from the United States.
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Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action by John Bays to recover the possession of lots five and eight in block eighty-seven of Couch’s Addition to Portland, to which the plaintiff claims title by virtue of a deed from the chief of police of said city upon a sale of said lots for an alleged delinquent assessment; while the defendant claims title by mesne conveyances from the United States. The facts show that the city of Portland constructed what is known as Tanner-creek sewer from North Fourteenth and B Streets to low-water mark in the Willamette River; that an…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moore.
1. This appeal presents several questions but we do not deem it necessary to consider them all. The bill of exceptions shows, among other alleged errors, that the plaintiff offered in evidence the judgment roll in the case of Paulsen v. Portland, to show that the defendant’s grantor, Thomas Brasel, had been a party plaintiff in *113said suit, and that the defendant was, by the decree therein, estopped from questioning the validity of the assessment, to the introduction of which the defendant objected, and, the court having sustained the same, the plaintiff excepted,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Remillard v. PrescottOregon Supreme Court · 1879
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- Nickum v. BurckhardtOregon Supreme Court · 1897
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