Bechtold v. Wilson

In the view we take of the case the only question that need be decided is whether the remedy of writ of review was available to the appellants: If it was not, it makes no difference whether the ruling on the demurrer was erroneous or otherwise.

In Asher v. Pitchford, 167 Or. 70, 76, 115 P. (2d) 337 (1941), we had occasion to say that the scope of the writ of review and the character of decisions of inferior tribunals that may be called in question by that proceeding “are matters not always easy of solution and which have not been clearly defined by the previous decisions of this court.” The…