Savage v. City of Salem
Oregon Supreme Court
Marion County: Reuben P. Boise, Judge. This is an action co recover damages for the removal by defendant of two water tanks which had been, with permission of defendant, erected by plaintiff on State and Court Streets in the city of Salem for the purpose of supplying sprinkling wagons with water for street sprinkling, and comes here on appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
On the sixteenth of February, 1887, the city of Salem, through its common council, authorized and empowered the plaintiff, under the supervision of its street supervisor, to erect and maintain water tanks for the purpose of supplying his street-sprinkling wagons with water with which to sprinkle and allay the dust on certain of the principal streets of the city, for a compensation to be by him received from the adjoining property owners. Under this authority the two tanks in question were erected by plaintiff at the places designated by and under the supervision of the street supervisor, and…
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