Tatum v. Massie
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Columbia: T. A. MoBkide, Judge. This is an action of trespass by Tatum and Bowen against G. A. Massie for unlawfully taking and. disposing of certain personal property alleged to be tbe property of plaintiffs.
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Appeal from Columbia: T. A. MoBkide, Judge. This is an action of trespass by Tatum and Bowen against G. A. Massie for unlawfully taking and. disposing of certain personal property alleged to be tbe property of plaintiffs. By their complaint the plaintiffs allege their copartnership relations, their ownership of the property since prior to June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and its value, and that the defendant was the sheriff of Columbia County; and then allege, in effect, that prior to said date the defendant, pretending to act under an execution issued in the case of one Graham…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Wolverton.
1. The first two assignments of error may he considered together. They simply challenge the findings as not the correct conclusions of fact to be deduced from the evidence, but, in the absence of a bill of exceptions, there is nothing in the record as it comes here to apprise us what the evidence was. We must therefore presume that it was sufficient to support the findings of the court as to the facts.
*1442. The next question is taken upon the fifth finding, “That the contract marked Plaintiffs’ Exhibit ‘A’ herein constitutes a chattel mortgage as between Western…
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