Clarno v. Grayson
Oregon Supreme Court
From Baker: Robert Eakin, Judge. This is a suit by Francis Clarno, as assignee of the Virtue Mining Company, a private corporation, against George W. Grayson, and it is based upon a certain contract and its modifications touching the Virtue Mine, situated in Baker County, Oregon. On the 19th day of November, 1891, the defendant, Geo.
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From Baker: Robert Eakin, Judge. This is a suit by Francis Clarno, as assignee of the Virtue Mining Company, a private corporation, against George W. Grayson, and it is based upon a certain contract and its modifications touching the Virtue Mine, situated in Baker County, Oregon. On the 19th day of November, 1891, the defendant, Geo. W. Grayson, being the owner of the mine in question, entered into a contract under seal with one William C. Ralston, of San Francisco, California, wherein, for the consideration of $10 in hand paid, the said Grayson agreed “to give to the said party of the second…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolverton
1. We had occasion to construe a contract similar to the one under consideration in Stinson v. Hardy, 27 Or. 584, 594 (41 Pac. 116), wherein it was determined that, after taking possession, making improvements, and incurring expenditures, the second party acquired a license coupled with an interest, exclusive and irrevocable. By *119the terms of the contract under consideration, and when we speak of the contract we have reference to it in its changed condition, as it is conceded by the parties that it has been regularly modified, it is conditioned that the party of the second part shall be…
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