Oregon City v. Moore
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clackamas: Thos. A. McBride, Judge. This is a mandamus proceeding by the municipal corporation of Oregon City to compel the county treasurer of Clackamas County to pay over to the plaintiff certain road taxes collected under the general laws of the State. A demurrer to the alternative writ having been sustained, the petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Bean.
The record discloses that in January, 1895, the County Court of Clackamas County levied a tax of four mills on the dollar on all the taxable property within that *217county, and a poll tax of $2 upon each and every person liable therefor, for road purposes, as authorized by subdivision 4 of section 4085, Hill’s Code, as amended in 1893 (Laws 1893, p. 60); and that pursuant to such levy there has been collected from the property and inhabitants of Oregon City, and paid over to the defendant, the sum of $2,874.77, which the plaintiff claims by virtue of subdivision 28,…
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