Callan v. Western Investment & Holding Co.

This suit was instituted by A. C. Callan, trustee of the estate of Harper Workman, deceased, against Western Investment & Holding Company, a corporation, to remove a cloud from the title to a tract of land in Portland, Oregon, by having declared null and void an instrument in the form of a deed executed and delivered by Harper Workman and his wife to the defendant corporation. From a decree in favor of the plaintiff the defendant appeals.

The complaint alleges that in October, 1935, the circuit court for Multnomah county in a proceeding instituted by some of the heirs of Harper Workman,…