Farrell v. Port of Columbia
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: John B. Cleland, Judge. Suit by Sylvester Farrell against the Port of Columbia and its commissioners to restrain said commissioners’ from proceeding under the act creating said corporation. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained and plaintiff appeals. ‘
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bean.
This suit involves the constitutionality of an act of the legislative assembly of 1907 to establish and incorporate the Port of Columbia: Laws 1907, p. 182. By this act the counties of Multnomah, Clatsop and Columbia are created a separate district, and the inhabitants thereof are constituted and declared to be a corporation by the name and style of the “Port of Columbia,” and as such to have perpetual succession; to hold, receive and dispose of real and personal property; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all suits or. proceedings brought by or…
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