Roberts v. Templeton
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lane: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is a suit by W. M. Eoberts against tbe administrator and heirs of S. E. Templeton, deceased, to enforce the specific performance of an oral contract to convey an undivided share of real property.
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From Lane: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is a suit by W. M. Eoberts against tbe administrator and heirs of S. E. Templeton, deceased, to enforce the specific performance of an oral contract to convey an undivided share of real property. The complaint states that on June 28, 1902, S. E. Templeton was the owner and in the possession of an interest in the following quartz mining claims in Lane County, to wit, the undivided one fourth of the Excelsior, the Eoyal Ann, and the IXL, and also the undivided one fifth of the Tough Nut, in the Calapooia and Blue Eiver…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
The trial court found that, though S. R. Templeton was ill when the oral agreement was entered into, he was' nevertheless competent to make a valid contract, and in this conclusion we fully concur, without setting out any of the testimony in support thereof.
The only.evidence offered tending to show the value of the interests in the mining claims, which the answer admits the deceased owned when the contract in question was entered into, was a copy of the inventory of his estate, showing an appraisement of such interests in the sum of $250. The defendants’ counsel did not call the appraisers as…
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