Oakes v. Lake

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

Some years prior to this proceeding, W. S. Skinner and his wife executed a deed of trust mortgaging certain real and personal property situate in Malheur county, Or. The personal property thereunder included a band of cattle numbering 141 head and bearing a certain brand, and is the property here in controversy. Default was made by the mortgagors and the property was turned over to the trustee under the deed of trust in a foreclosure suit. At the same time, March 17, 1931, appellant was appointed receiver of the property by an order of the state eourt of Oregon in…