Farmers' National Bank v. Hunter
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union : Robert Eakin, Judge. Action by the Farmer’s & Trader’s National Bank of La Grande, Oregon, against W. G. Hunter upon a contract entered into between the defendant and Yee Sing & Company, by the terms of which, said defendant agreed to plow, put in a good state of cultivation, and seed to sugar beets, three hundred acres of his farm in Union County, and Yee Sing & Company agreed to take posession thereof as soon as the beets were up and ready for cultivation, and…
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From Union : Robert Eakin, Judge. Action by the Farmer’s & Trader’s National Bank of La Grande, Oregon, against W. G. Hunter upon a contract entered into between the defendant and Yee Sing & Company, by the terms of which, said defendant agreed to plow, put in a good state of cultivation, and seed to sugar beets, three hundred acres of his farm in Union County, and Yee Sing & Company agreed to take posession thereof as soon as the beets were up and ready for cultivation, and thereafter, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Oregon Sugar Company, to furnish sufficient labor, at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
The notice of appeal contains some forty-nine assignments of error, but we have neither the time nor the inclination to examine and decide each one separately, nor would any useful purpose be served thereby. Many of them simply present different phases of the same questions.
1. The first ruling complained of is the refusal of the trial court to require the defendant to elect upon which of the several separate defenses he would rely at the trial. The contention is that the defendant is not entitled to set up the failure of Yee Sing & Company to *192perform the contract according to its terms, and…
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