Legal Opinion
Port of Portland v. REEDER
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided February 23, 1955PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrand, J.
The plaintiff Port of Portland brings this suit to enjoin the maintenance by the defendants of houseboats and moorage structures on the river side of a harbor line established by the Port along the northeasterly bank of the Willamette River at the Swan Island Basin. Defendants contend that the Port Ordinance establishing the harbor line is invalid and that the defendants have property rights which cannot be destroyed without just compensation. They allege that they are the owners of certain land, without describing it, with structures thereon “consisting of piling, dolphins, boardwalks, boat…
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