Coulter v. Portland Trust Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah county: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. This is an action of ejectment brought to recover certain real property in the city of East Portland. The complaint is in the usual form and contains all the allegations required by the statute. The answer traverses plaintiff’s allegations and then alleges title in the defendant.
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Multnomah county: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. This is an action of ejectment brought to recover certain real property in the city of East Portland. The complaint is in the usual form and contains all the allegations required by the statute. The answer traverses plaintiff’s allegations and then alleges title in the defendant. Upon the trial in the court below the plaintiff introduced the record evidence of his title by mesne conveyances from Elijah B. Davidson and wife, the original donees of the United States, and rested. The last conveyance in his chain of title was a deed of…
1Opinion of the CourtStrahan, C. J.
— The first question to which our attention will be directed is the construction to be given the power of attorney executed by Howard H. Palmer to his wife, E. A. Palmer, on the 17th day of March, 1887. By that instru. ment he created E. A. Palmer his true and lawful attorney in fact and empowered her to transact any business what, ever in a lawful manner in connection with or necessary to the buying, selling, transferring or mortgaging real estate in said county and state, including the signing of all necessary papers in order to transact any such business relating to real estate…
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