O'Connell v. O'Connell

This is a suit to set aside a deed from Dennis O’Connell and Clara B. O’Connell to Dennis O’Connell, one of the named grantors. The deed is undated and is not witnessed. The circuit court rendered a decree cancelling the deed, and defendant Allen O’Connell, executor of the estate of Dennis O’Connell, deceased, and Agnes O’Connell, his wife, appeal.

In the summer of 1927 the plaintiff and her then husband, Dennis O’Connell, purchased all of lots 8 and 9 and the east five feet of lot 10, all in block 18, Hanson’s Second Addition to the city of Portland, Multnomah county, Oregon. The north half…