Corbett v. Wrenn
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action by Rebecca Corbett against S. E. Wrenn to recover damages for the breach of a warranty against incumbrances.
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Appeal from Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. This is an action by Rebecca Corbett against S. E. Wrenn to recover damages for the breach of a warranty against incumbrances. The facts are that on August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the defendant was the owner of real property in Multnomah County, Oregon, known as Subdivision C in lot one of block five in Portland Homestead; that at said date there was a mortgage thereon executed by one R. H. Blossom, a former owner, to the Franklin Building & Loan Association, to secure the payment of a loan of two thousand three hundred dollars in…
1Opinion of the Court
*310Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moore.
The alleged errors relied upon by the defendant may be divided into two classes: First, the rulings and instructions of the court treating .the action as being for a breach of warranty and not for deceit; and, second, to the rejection of testimony offered by him. The errors assigned under the first class are: 1. In overruling defendant’s motion for a nonsuit. 2. In refusing to instruct the j ury to find for the defendant. 3. In giving the following instructions: “I have already stated to you that the gist of this action is a covenant of warranty against any…
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