HOOD RIVER COUNTY v. WESTERN TREE FARMS, INC.


448 P.2d 519 (1968)

HOOD RIVER COUNTY, Respondent, v. WESTERN TREE FARMS, INC., a Corporation; Evergreen Timber Company, Inc., a Corporation; and Bruce V. Deardorff and Lorena Deardorff, Husband and Wife, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oregon. In Banc.

Decided December 11, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Wyllie, Salem, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief were Rhoten, Rhoten & Speerstra, Salem.

Carl R. Neil, Portland, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Lindsay, Nahstoll, Hart, Dafoe & Krause, Portland, and John A. Jelderks, Dist. Atty., Hood River.

Before McALLISTER, P.J., and SLOAN, O'CONNELL, DENECKE, HOLMAN and MENGLER, JJ.


Argued and Submitted at Pendleton October 28, 1968.

DENECKE, Justice.

The plaintiff county filed a suit to quiet title to several parcels of property. The defendants counterclaimed asserting ownership of four of the parcels. The defendants' claim is based upon the alleged invalidity of the tax foreclosure proceedings through which the county claims title. The county demurred to the counterclaims upon the ground that they failed to state causes of suit and...

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