Miller v. Conley
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: John W; Knowles, Judge. In Banc. The plaintiff brought this suit against her father, A. B. Conley, and her brother, J. Frank Conley, and their wives, respectively her mother and her sister-in-law, to quiet her title in 80 acres of land in Union County, claiming that her father had given her the tract in 1900, in pursuance of which she and her husband had left their residence on land owned by the latter, had taken possession of the 80-acre tract and had held the…
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From Union: John W; Knowles, Judge. In Banc. The plaintiff brought this suit against her father, A. B. Conley, and her brother, J. Frank Conley, and their wives, respectively her mother and her sister-in-law, to quiet her title in 80 acres of land in Union County, claiming that her father had given her the tract in 1900, in pursuance of which she and her husband had left their residence on land owned by the latter, had taken possession of the 80-acre tract and had held the same adversely to all other claimants ever since. The mother disclaims all title in the property. ‘ The father denied the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The testimony of the plaintiff and of her husband is to the effect that in .June, 1900, the father, A. B. Conley, gave to his daughter the tract of land in dispute, in pursuance of which they went upon it, took possession thereof, and used it as her own continuously from that time forward, making sundry valuable improvements thereon. By at least three disinterested witnesses they proved that at about that time and subsequently on different occasions the father told the witnesses that he had given the 80-acre tract in dispute to his daughter, the plaintiff. At the time his testimony was taken,…
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