State v. Keep
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge. Department 1. • Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. A lengthy indictment in this case charges Joseph B. Keep jointly with William 0. Borchers with the crime of obtaining money from Frank Yan Stralen by false pretenses. Borchers was discharged from the indictment so that he could be used as a witness for the state. Keep appeals from a conviction on a verdict of guilty.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
From the record we glean what may be deemed the salient facts in the matter involved. Keep was promoting an irrigation project in Wasco County, and needed money to meet his pay-roll. About that time, without having any title to the same, he conveyed some land to his daughter, Emma M. Janin, and her husband, E. C. Janin. The daughter and her husband made a promissory note payable to Borchers for $3,000, and likewise executed a mortgage on the tract securing the note. With the note and mortgage Keep applied to Borchers to raise, the money for him. Borchers had $1,500 on deposit in a bank. He…
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