Keenan v. City of Portland

Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is au action against the City of Portland as the successor of the City of East Portland, by consolidation of the two cities, to recover the cost of improving a street. The record discloses that the plaintiffs, S. M. Keenan and Son, built an elevated plank roadway on N Street, in the City of East Portland, under a contract with said city, and received therefrom for such improvement city warrants for three thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars, drawn on a fund to be raised by an assessment upon the abutting property, under an ordinance…