John P. Sharkey Co. v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is a suit by John P. Sharkey Company, a corporation, against the City of Portland, M. J. Connelley, and Messrs.
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From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is a suit by John P. Sharkey Company, a corporation, against the City of Portland, M. J. Connelley, and Messrs. Scott & McDougal, to restrain the defendants from wrongfully removing earth from an excavation being made in the improvement of Franklin Street in the city of Portland, and to compel defendants to account for and pay the value of earth which plaintiff claims has been already unlawfully converted. The complaint, which is too voluminous for insertion here, alleges in substance, that W. Scott and T.…
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss.
Opinion by
Mr.- Chief Justice Moore.
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal as to some of the parties. The defendants, the city of Portland, a municipal corporation, W. Scott and T. McDougal, partners as Scott & McDougal, and M. J. Connelley, having been perpetually enjoined from trespassing on the plaintiff’s land and required to pay him damages arising from the injury thereto, jointly appealed from the entire decree. The city of Portland alone filed a brief, and because its codefendants did not join therein or file a separate brief this motion was interposed.
1. As the…
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