Ankeny v. Blackiston
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah County. This suit involves the validity of a decree rendered in a partition suit to which the appellants were parties defendant. It was brought to quiet title. The respondents had a decree as prayed for, from which this appeal is taken. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from Multnomah County. This suit involves the validity of a decree rendered in a partition suit to which the appellants were parties defendant. It was brought to quiet title. The respondents had a decree as prayed for, from which this appeal is taken. The facts are stated in the opinion. When lands are granted to two or more persons to hold to them and their heirs, or for the term of their life, without any restrictive or exclusive words, all the persons named in such instrument to whom the lands are so given take a joint estate and are called joint-tenants. (2 Greenl. Cruise, 364.)…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Boise, J.:
In this suit the plaintiffs claim title through divers mesne conveyances from one Thomas Thoburn, who purchased the land in question at a sale of the same on execution on a judgment in favor of one Kalmes v. William Blackiston et al, the father of the said Charles A. Blackiston and Clara Blackiston. These conveyances are in due form and are not in that respect questioned. After obtaining a sheriff’s deed to the land, and before conveying the same, Thoburn brought a suit of partition against John Doscher and wife, William Blackiston and wife, Charles A. Blackiston, Clara…
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