Hughes v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

The plaintiff brings this suit to enjoin the defendants, or any of them, from building a bridge across the Wallamet river at the north end of Portland. The bill alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of tlie river blocks numbered 11, 12, and 13, and the south half of 14, in Watson’s addition to Portland, lying on the west bank of the Wallamet river, between North Front street and said river, with the usual right of wharfage and dockage in front thereof; that the port of Portland is a sea-port, where soa-going vessels enter, and that said river is navigable above and to the southward of said…