Seafeldt v. Port of Astoria

This suit was brought by a taxpayer to enjoin the Port of Astoria and its officers from performing a contract which it had entered into with the Tacoma Dredging Company by which it had agreed to do certain dredging work on two bars in the Willamette river, which work that company had agreed to do for the United States of America. The case is here upon an appeal from a decree enjoining the defendants from performing such work.

It appears from the evidence that on December 16, 1931, the Tacoma Dredging Company entered into a contract with the federal government to dredge two bars in the channel…