Maxwell v. Tillamook County
Oregon Supreme Court
Yamhill county: R. P. Boise, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. The legislature of a state has power to appropriate the revenues of a county or charge a debt upon a county. (Sangamon Co. v. Springfield, 63 111. 71; Richland Co. v. Lawrence, 12 III. 1; People ex rel. v. Flagg, 46 N. Y. 401; David v. Portland Water Co. 14 Or. 99; Dillon Mun.
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Yamhill county: R. P. Boise, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. The legislature of a state has power to appropriate the revenues of a county or charge a debt upon a county. (Sangamon Co. v. Springfield, 63 111. 71; Richland Co. v. Lawrence, 12 III. 1; People ex rel. v. Flagg, 46 N. Y. 401; David v. Portland Water Co. 14 Or. 99; Dillon Mun. Corp. § 61.) The act of the legislative assembly under which this case arose is not in conflict with the clause of the state constitution forbidding the enactment of special or local laws for laying, opening and working on highways, and for the selection and…
1Opinion of the CourtLoud, J.
— This is an action to recover from the defendant Tillamook county the sum of $895, for services alleged to have been rendered as superintendent of construction of a public wagon road from Nehalem to the Fuqua toll road, in said county, with a branch road from South prairie to Netarts bay. The complaint alleges in substance that by virtue of the provisions of an act entitled “An act to appropriate $10,000 to aid Tillamook county in the construction of a wagon road from the Nehalem river, in the north end of said county, to Fuqua toll road, in the south end of said county, and to use $1,000 of…
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