Evans v. Meridian Investment & Trust Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Prom Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. The plaintiff, Mary H. Evans, commenced a suit to quiet title against the Meridian Investment & Trust Company, now known as the Meridianal Company, a corporation, and the City of Portland. Prom a decree in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal. Affirmed. Rehearing denied. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice McBride.
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Prom Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. The plaintiff, Mary H. Evans, commenced a suit to quiet title against the Meridian Investment & Trust Company, now known as the Meridianal Company, a corporation, and the City of Portland. Prom a decree in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal. Affirmed. Rehearing denied. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice McBride. This is a suit to quiet title to lot 8, block 51, in the town of Albina, now within the corporate limits of the City of Portland. The complaint was in the usual form. The defendant answered, and its answer being held insufficient…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice McBride.
1. The matter of this street assessment has been so long pending that it has attained the character of a genuine antique. In 1903 the City of Portland attempted to assess plaintiff’s property for an improvement of Albina Avenue. The assessment was resisted and set aside by the court. It then attempted to make a reassessment, which was adjudged void in the case of Applegate v. City of Portland, 53 Or. 552 (99 Pac. 890), and the city directed to proceed to reassess the property. Thereupon the city endeavored to make another reassessment, but this was resisted…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Hughes v. City of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1909
- Dowell v. City of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1886
- Applegate v. City of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1909
- Keenan v. City of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1894
- Gaston v. PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1906
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