Winters v. George
Oregon Supreme Court
Plaintiff appeals. This suit was brought for the purpose of restraining the defendants from issuing bonds and constructing or purchasing one or more bridges across the Willamette river at Portland, as contemplated by the act passed by the last legislature, and generally known as the Meussdorifer Act.
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Plaintiff appeals. This suit was brought for the purpose of restraining the defendants from issuing bonds and constructing or purchasing one or more bridges across the Willamette river at Portland, as contemplated by the act passed by the last legislature, and generally known as the Meussdorifer Act. (Session Acts, 1891,684, et seq.) The complaint charges that the plaintiff is a resident and tax-payer in the city of Portland, Oregon, which was organized under an act of the last legislative assembly of this state for the consolidation of the cities of Portland, East Portland, and Albina; that…
1Opinion of the CourtStrahan, C. J.
The real contention here is, that the act consolidating the cities of Portland, East Portland, and Albina into one municipal corporation repealed by implication the Meussdoffer Act, and that is the only question presented by this appeal. A brief summary of the act will render the question at issue more apparent. The first section provides in substance that the cities of Portland, East Portland, and Albina are hereby authorized and empowered to provide one or more suitable and commodious bridges over and across the Willamette river, at such points between the north line of section 28, township…
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