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PORTLAND MEADOWS, INC. v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY

439 P.2d 1017 (1968)

PORTLAND MEADOWS, INC., Peninsula Drainage District No. 2, and Portland Sportservice, Inc., Respondents, v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Oregon, William W. Campbell, County Treasurer for the County of Multnomah, and Mel Gordon, David Eccles, and M. James Gleason, Commissioners for Multnomah County, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oregon, Department 2.

Decided April 24, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willis A. West, Chief Civil Deputy Dist. Atty., Portland, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief were George Van Hoomissen, Dist. Atty., Portland.

Otto R. Skopil, Jr., Salem, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Bruce W. Williams, and Williams, Skopil, Miller & Beck, Salem.

Before PERRY, C.J., and SLOAN, GOODWIN, HOLMAN and LUSK, JJ.

SLOAN, Justice.

Multnomah County appeals from a peremptory writ of mandamus compelling it to pay a judgment for an attorney's fee that had been awarded plaintiff in a condemnation proceeding. The jury award in the condemnation case was much in excess of the county's prior offer for the property involved. The county elected, after a judgment had been entered on the jury verdict, not to take the property. The county then refused...

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