Lane v. Ball
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Calvin U. Gantenbein, Judge. This is an action by Adolphus Lane against W. F. Ball, E. E. Farrington, C. H. Farrington, C. M. White and John B. Coffey. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
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From Multnomah: Calvin U. Gantenbein, Judge. This is an action by Adolphus Lane against W. F. Ball, E. E. Farrington, C. H. Farrington, C. M. White and John B. Coffey. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. The complaint in this action was filed February 23, 1915, and alleges in effect that the defendants E. E. Farrington, C. H. Farrington and C. M. White are and at all the times stated were attorneys at law and engaged in the practice of their profession at Portland, Oregon, and are financially interested in a judgment…
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Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
1, 2. It will be remembered the complaint charges that the defendants acting jointly and illegally and for the wrongful and unlawful purpose of extorting money from the plaintiff by wrongful means caused an execution to be issued directing the sheriff to arrest and imprison the plaintiff in the county jail until he should pay Ball and his attorneys, defendants herein, the sum due on the judgment, and that pursuant to such writ the plaintiff was arrested February 15, 1913, and so imprisoned until the 24th of the next month when he was discharged by order of…
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