Bechtell v. City of Salem

Notwithstanding the fact that the City of Salem included in the bonding applications, which it required *12applicants for Bancroft bonding (ORS 223.205 through 223.300) to sign, a provision (1) which is absent from the form of applications for bonding prescribed by ORS 223.215 and (2) which is hostile to the provisions of the Bancroft Bonding Act the majority ignore those important facts and hold that when the property owners signed the applications a “binding contract” was thereby created and that it was governed by the Bancroft Bonding Act. To support their holding the majority cite previous…