Yamhill County v. Dauenhauer

The defendants appeal from a declaratory judgment decree of the circuit court which held that an initiative measure proposed in Yamhill County “is not a proper and authorized exercise of the initiative procedure * *

In September 1968, the Board of Yamhill County Commissioners placed a bond measure on the general election ballot. It proposed financing the construction of a bridge across the Willamette River to Marion County. The measure passed, as did a similar one in Marion County. Each county was to pay one-fourth of the cost of construction, the balance being borne by a federal grant which…