Portland Public Market v. Woodworth
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah.: Robert G. Morrow, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. The Portland Public Market & Cold Storage Company, a corporation, alleging that G. D. Woodworth, in writing, subscribed and agreed to pay for 100 shares of its capital stock of the par value of $100 per share, brings this action against him on four counts to recover levied assessments.
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From Multnomah.: Robert G. Morrow, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. The Portland Public Market & Cold Storage Company, a corporation, alleging that G. D. Woodworth, in writing, subscribed and agreed to pay for 100 shares of its capital stock of the par value of $100 per share, brings this action against him on four counts to recover levied assessments. The defendant, after denying most of the allegations of the complaint, states substantially that one King, representing himself to he the treasurer and general manager of the plaintiff, with intent to defraud the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
1. The bill of exceptions upon which the court is asked to determine this case consists of a literal report of the testimony of the witnesses, the badinage of counsel, the remarks of the court and various other matters occurring at the trial, repeated with machine-like accuracy. So far as concerns the various objections to testimony noted in the appellant’s brief, the court cannot consider them for want of a proper bill of exceptions. It has been many times repeated by the court that, in order to properly present such questions, so much of the testimony, and no more, as is requisite to the…
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