Barrett v. Failing

By the Court,

Kelly, C. J.:

On the eighteenth day of February, 1871, Mary E. Barrett, the above-named appellant, recovered a judgment against Charles Barrett in the circuit court of the state, for the county of Multnomah, in the sum of five thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirty-two cents and forty-six dollars and thirty cents costs. The foundation of the action was a decree for alimony in a divorce case prosecuted in the state of California wherein the said Mary E. obtained a divorce from the said Charles Barrett.

On the first of November, 1873, Charles Barrett died, leaving…