David v. Portland Water Committee

The respondents commenced a suit in the circuit court for Multnomah County, to restrain said “Water Committee ” from constructing certain water works, and from issuing and disposing of .certain bonds, under and in pursuance *105of an act of the legislative assembly of the State of Oregon entitled “ An act to amend an act entitled ‘ An act to incorporate the city of Portland, approved October 24, 1882,’” approved November 25, 1885, claiming that said act was unconstitutional and void, and that the issuing and disposing of said bonds as the obligations of the city of Portland, would render the real…