State v. Douglas County Road Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Douglas County. After the transcript had been filed in this case, and the cause placed upon the docket, J. W. Hamilton, Esq., district attorney of the second judicial district, appeared and filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, because, as he alleged, he had not taken the same for the state, or authorized any one to do so for him. Messrs. Wm.
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Appeal from Douglas County. After the transcript had been filed in this case, and the cause placed upon the docket, J. W. Hamilton, Esq., district attorney of the second judicial district, appeared and filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, because, as he alleged, he had not taken the same for the state, or authorized any one to do so for him. Messrs. Wm. R. Willis and R. S. Strahan opposed the motion; contending that the appeal was regularly taken, and that the district attorney had no authority to dismiss it.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Waldo, J.:
The appellant, the Douglas County Road Company, is a private, as distinguished from a distinctly public, corporation. (Douglas County Road Company v. Abraham, 5 Or., 518.) Its object, as specified in its articles of incorporation, was “to build and keep in repair, a good and substantial plank, clay and gravel wagon road through the big canyon, in Douglas county, state of Oregon, and to receive tolls for traveling over said road.” The object of this action is to annul the existence of the corporation.
Section 351 of the code of civil procedure abolished the writ of quo…
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