Tobin v. Portland Mills Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Linn: Reuben P. Boise, Judge. This is a suit by Ida M. Tobin, Mary Black, H. C. Davis, W. H. Gulliford, B. F. Allen, James A. Smith, John Davis, John M. Porter, Alexander Powers, and Robert Andrews against the Portland Flouring Mills Co. and the Salem Flouring Mills Co., corporations, Stephen Williamson, Robert Balfour, Robert B. Foreman, Alexander Guthrie, Robert Bruce, and Walter J. Burns, partners as Balfour, Guthrie & Co., and James C. Black as administrator of the…
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From Linn: Reuben P. Boise, Judge. This is a suit by Ida M. Tobin, Mary Black, H. C. Davis, W. H. Gulliford, B. F. Allen, James A. Smith, John Davis, John M. Porter, Alexander Powers, and Robert Andrews against the Portland Flouring Mills Co. and the Salem Flouring Mills Co., corporations, Stephen Williamson, Robert Balfour, Robert B. Foreman, Alexander Guthrie, Robert Bruce, and Walter J. Burns, partners as Balfour, Guthrie & Co., and James C. Black as administrator of the estate of Thomas J. Black, deceased, to compel the defendants to account for wheat received from Black. . . . ■ It is’…
1Opinion of the Court · MooreJustice Moore
1. It is contended by appellants’ counsel that the depositors of wheat in the warehouses are not so numerous as to entitle the plaintiffs to represent them, and that the court erred in decreeing a recovery of any wheat, or of the value thereof, in favor of any person other than the plaintiffs. That part of the decree which requires the appellants to pay into court the sums awarded, to be distributed by the receiver to those for whose benefit the suit was instituted, is sought to be justified by invoking Section 385, Hill’s Ann. Laws, which is as follows: “Of the parties to the suit, those who…
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