Christenson v. Nelson
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Arthur L. Frazier, Judge. Action by John P. Christenson and Daniel J. McMaster, partners as the Christenson-McMaster Machinery Company, against J. R. Nelson and another, commenced October 15, 1898, to recover possession of personal property.
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From Multnomah: Arthur L. Frazier, Judge. Action by John P. Christenson and Daniel J. McMaster, partners as the Christenson-McMaster Machinery Company, against J. R. Nelson and another, commenced October 15, 1898, to recover possession of personal property. The complaint alleges, in substance, that on the eleventh day of May, 1898, the plaintiffs delivered to Gustave Sundberg and Peter Lind certain planing-mill machinery, under an agreement by which they were to pay $535 therefor, — $225 at the time of delivery, $50 on July 10, $100 on October 10, and $160 on November 10 following; that such…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bean
1. Upon the trial the plaintiffs offered to prove by Frank Dooley, an insurance agent, that on May 12, 1898, by the consent of plaintiffs and Sundberg and Lind, he insured the property in controversy for the sum of $1,000, evidenced by a policy issued to- the latter, and that the defendants in this suit assumed the payment of the premium of $70. The court refused to admit such testimony, and, on motion of defendants’ counsel, permitted the answer to be amended by interlineation so that the admission therein should read as follows: “Defendants admit the partnership as alleged in plaintiffs’…
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