Salmon River-Grande Ronde Highway Improvement Dist. v. Scott

This is a mandamus proceeding in which the plaintiff seeks to compel the state highway commission to pay it a sum of money in accordance with the provisions of chapter 298, Oregon Laws, 1933.

The plaintiff is organized under chapter 399, General Laws of Oregon, 1921, being an act,

“To provide for the incorporation under general law of highway improvement districts consisting of contiguous territory; to provide for the organization of such districts, for the appointment and election of officers, authorizing such districts to levy taxes, borrow money, issue bonds; to authorize the laying out,…