Hydraulic Mining Co. v. Smith
Oregon Supreme Court
Prom Josephine: Prank M. Calkins, Judge. Department 1. This is a suit to quiet title to certain mining property. Defendant, Mrs. Smith, answered that she held the title to the property as security, together with other security, for the payment of $12,500 and interest. A decree was rendered in favor of defendant. Plaintiff appeals. On March 28, 1902, Jefferson D. Cook and Gr.
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Prom Josephine: Prank M. Calkins, Judge. Department 1. This is a suit to quiet title to certain mining property. Defendant, Mrs. Smith, answered that she held the title to the property as security, together with other security, for the payment of $12,500 and interest. A decree was rendered in favor of defendant. Plaintiff appeals. On March 28, 1902, Jefferson D. Cook and Gr. E. Howland were engaged in a placer mining enterprise in Josephine County, Oregon, operating the mine and holding title through the medium of a domestic corporation known as Hydraulic Mining Company, in which they were…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
It appears from the record that Mrs. Elizabeth A. Smith still holds the promissory notes of the Hydraulic Mining Company for the $12,500 originally loaned by her, which are wholly unpaid. It is shown by the evidence that the interest thereon *95is in arrears from 1915. It further appears that defendant, Elizabeth A. Smith, holds the title to the mining property of the Hydraulic Mining Company under the conveyance of March 28, 1902, renewed by deed of June 10, 1907, and she still holds an interest in the property conveyed by the trust deed which has been foreclosed, in lieu of $11,500 par value…
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- First Nat. Bank v. SeaweardOregon Supreme Court · 1915
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