Houck v. Darling

This is a suit to cancel a deed to real property, described as follows:

“The West 12 ft. of Lot 4, and the East 30.5 ft. of the South of Lot 5, all in Block 26, Caruthers Addition to the City of Portland, in the County of Multnomah, State of Oregon;”

The plaintiff alleged in his amended complaint that on August 31, 1960, the defendants, acting through one of them, Cecil H. Russell, “by fraud, duress and artifice, 'Obtained an acknowledged and purported deed of conveyance” to the real property in question from the plaintiff; that a notary public was obtained to execute a form of acknowledgment…