Bilyeu v. Crouch
Oregon Supreme Court
Prom Linn: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 1. This is a suit to quiet the title of the plaintiffs in the south half of the wife’s moiety of the donation land claim of Charles T. Ingram and Eliza Ann Ingram, his wife, in Linn County, Oregon. The plaintiffs claim to be the owners in fee simple of this tract. They assert title by virtue of mesne conveyances from Frank Ingram.
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Prom Linn: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 1. This is a suit to quiet the title of the plaintiffs in the south half of the wife’s moiety of the donation land claim of Charles T. Ingram and Eliza Ann Ingram, his wife, in Linn County, Oregon. The plaintiffs claim to be the owners in fee simple of this tract. They assert title by virtue of mesne conveyances from Frank Ingram. Whatever title the latter had came to him by virtue of the last will and testament of his mother, Eliza Ann Ingram, the third clause of which, and the one principally affecting this litigation, reads as follows: “I…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
Substantially, the contention of the plaintiffs is that the condition in the will to the effect that, if Frank Ingram should die without issue, then the land bequeathed to him should be equally divided between the daughters of the testatrix, Anna and Mary Jane Ingram, and their heirs forever, refers to the death of Frank Ingram occurring prior to the death of the testatrix. The. defendant maintains that the language refers to the demise of Ingram at any time, *69whether before or after that of his mother, who made the will.
Eliza Ann Ingram owned a fee-simple estate in the land as the donee of…
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