Richards v. Page Investment Co.

This is a suit wherein the plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of an undivided half and' the defendant is the owner of the other moiety of a *511certain tract of land and seeks to have the same partitioned between them.

By way of giving a history of his title he avers in his complaint that on July 25, 1862, James B. Stephens and wife conveyed to Joseph Knott a tract of land in Multnomah County described in the complaint as bounded on the west by the east bank of the Willamette River, the title to which Knott held one half for himself and one fourth for each of his two sons, Levi Knott and A. J.…