Baldwin Co. v. Savage
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is a suit by the Baldwin Company, a corporation, against J. F. Savage and Margaret Savage, L. F. Savage, W. E. Savage and Alwilda Savage, and James Withycombe, Ben W. Olcott and Thos. B. Kay, constituting the state land board, to foreclose a mortgage and to recover the amount of four promissory notes, the payment of which was thus undertaken to be secured.
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From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is a suit by the Baldwin Company, a corporation, against J. F. Savage and Margaret Savage, L. F. Savage, W. E. Savage and Alwilda Savage, and James Withycombe, Ben W. Olcott and Thos. B. Kay, constituting the state land board, to foreclose a mortgage and to recover the amount of four promissory notes, the payment of which was thus undertaken to be secured. The admitted facts, respecting the execution of this mortgage and of other securities, are that the plaintiff is a corporation engaged in…
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Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
The defendant J. F. Savage testified: That Mr. Berger, the plaintiff’s general agent, telephoned from Salem, Oregon, to the farm where the witness lived, informing him that his son had appropriated money not his own, thereby rendering himself liable to prosecution. That the following morning the witness went to Salem, where Berger told him his son would be prosecuted by the plaintiff if he did not get security or repay the money which he owed it. That prior thereto the witness had no knowledge of his son’s failure to keep his contract with the plaintiff, and…
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