Security & Investment Co. v. Oregon City

This is a suit to quiet title to the so-called street ends or extensions of 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 10th streets in Oregon City from Water street westerly to the Willamette river as shown on the ‘ ‘map and plan” of Oregon City, acknowledged by Dr. John McLoughlin on December 2, 1850, and filed on January 7, 1851. Plaintiff asserts that, by virtue of mesne conveyances from the heirs, legatees, and devisees of Dr. McLoughlin and by certain sheriffs’ tax deeds, it is the owner in fee simple of the above strips of land.

The defendant city does not deny that title is vested in the plaintiff if…