Little v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action brought by E. C. Little, as assignee of the Oregon Paving and Contract Company, against the City of Portland, for damages caused by the nonpayment of certain warrants amounting to one thousand one hundred dollars, drawn by the defendant upon a special fund to be raised by assessment of real property benefited by the improvement of Twelfth Street in said city.
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Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action brought by E. C. Little, as assignee of the Oregon Paving and Contract Company, against the City of Portland, for damages caused by the nonpayment of certain warrants amounting to one thousand one hundred dollars, drawn by the defendant upon a special fund to be raised by assessment of real property benefited by the improvement of Twelfth Street in said city. The facts out of which the cause of action arose and upon which the complaint was based are identical with those stated in the case of the Commercial National Bank v. City…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moore.
1. The questions presented relate to the alleged error of the court in sustaining the demurrer. It is contended that where a city is not vested by its charter with power to improve streets and pay the expense thereof out of the general fund, it cannot be held liable on account of a breach *242of duty on the part of its officers in a case where the contractor agrees to look for his compensation to the fund to be raised by assessing the property benefited by such improvement, unless the city can reimburse itself from such assessment. This question was fully discussed by…
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