Bott v. Campbell
Oregon Supreme Court
From Umatilla: Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Beau. This is a suit by N. K. Bott against Harriet Campbell, Charles Argyle Campbell, G-race Emaline Campbell, Harriet Fitzgerald Campbell and Annie M. Campbell, in which suit the plaintiff seeks to reform a written contract. From a decree in his favor the defendants appeal.
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From Umatilla: Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Beau. This is a suit by N. K. Bott against Harriet Campbell, Charles Argyle Campbell, G-race Emaline Campbell, Harriet Fitzgerald Campbell and Annie M. Campbell, in which suit the plaintiff seeks to reform a written contract. From a decree in his favor the defendants appeal. On September 19, 1911, Charles H. Campbell was the owner of 1,120 acres of wheat land in Umatilla County, about 1,000 of which were in cultivation, approximately 500 then in summer-fallow, and about 500 in stubble, from which a crop had been taken…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. From a careful reading of the evidence we find, ■as did the learned trial judge, that the agreement was made between plaintiff and Charles H. Campbell as alleged in plaintiff’s complaint; that it was mutually agreed between the parties to the lease that plaintiff should receive a reasonable compensation for the work to be done by him in summer-fallowing that portion of the land which was not in crop during the season of 1916, and that it was not agreed nor understood that he should furnish seed to sow the summer-fallow during the fall of 1916 for the 1917 crop; that by mistake of the…
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