Lovejoy v. Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. In Banc. This is a suit brought by George A. Love joy to enjoin tbe City of Portland from compelling Mm to pay a license fee for tbe right to act as an insurance agent in Portland. Tbe city demurred to tbe complaint; tbe court overruled the demurrer, and upon tbe refusal of tbe city to plead further a decree was entered for tbe plaintiff, and tbe city appealed. Tbe demurrer assumes that tbe allegations of the complaint are true.
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From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. In Banc. This is a suit brought by George A. Love joy to enjoin tbe City of Portland from compelling Mm to pay a license fee for tbe right to act as an insurance agent in Portland. Tbe city demurred to tbe complaint; tbe court overruled the demurrer, and upon tbe refusal of tbe city to plead further a decree was entered for tbe plaintiff, and tbe city appealed. Tbe demurrer assumes that tbe allegations of the complaint are true. Tbe controversy arises out of a conflict between a state statute and a city ordinance, and on that account it will be…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
1, 2. Like most of the State Constitutions, our organic law commands that—
“Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith, which subject shall be expressed in the title”: Article IV, Section 20.
The defendant contends that the title of Chapter 203, Laws of 1917, is not sufficient, within the meaning of Article IV, Section 20, of the state Constitution, to include and sustain subdivision 6 of Section 3d of the act. This section of the Constitution was designed to do away with the several abuses, among which was the practice of inserting in one bill two or more…
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