163 P. 1165 | Or. | 1917
Opinion by
“That part of Section 400 providing that, when the property has been sold for the payment of a delinquent assessment and the sale has been declared void, the property shall be reassessed and the proceeds paid to the purchaser in the prior sale, is unconstitutional and void, because it is, in effect, the taking of one man’s property and giving it to another.”
This disposes absolutely of the proposition that the City of Portland had any right to make a reassessment of plaintiff’s property after the void sale. The defendant Meridianal Company stands in the position of a volunteer who has paid the tax of the defendant City of Portland at its own risk. It, therefore, cannot claim reimbursement either as a matter of law or for any equitable reason. • A different rule has been inti
Affirmed. Rehearing Denied.