Ail Et Ux. v. City of Portland

By assignment of error number 3, plaintiffs assert that the court erred in instructing the jury as follows:

“In cases where the uses of the street by the public are found by the city council to call for an arrangement that may have the effect of shutting off access to abutting property or rendering such access less convenient, the city may go forward and construct such improvement without being liable in any respect to the abutting property owner, though his property be rendered less valuable or the use thereof be less convenient.”

Assignment number 4 relates to an instruction reading:

“If,…