Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. Northwestern Long Distance Telephone Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah.: William N. Gatens, Judge. In Banc. The plaintiff, Title Insurance & Trust Company, the Northwestern Long Distance Telephone Company and the National Securities Company are all corporations organized and existing under the laws of California with their home offices at Los Angeles in that state. The Home Telephone and Telegraph Company is an Oregon corporation whose principal place of business is in Portland.
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From Multnomah.: William N. Gatens, Judge. In Banc. The plaintiff, Title Insurance & Trust Company, the Northwestern Long Distance Telephone Company and the National Securities Company are all corporations organized and existing under the laws of California with their home offices at Los Angeles in that state. The Home Telephone and Telegraph Company is an Oregon corporation whose principal place of business is in Portland. The Home Telephone Company of Puget Sound is a Washington corporation with headquarters at Tacoma. For brevity of expression the plaintiff will be designated as the Title…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The principal question to be determined is the validity of the personal judgment rendered against the plaintiff. The only thing to which this adjudication can be attributed is the effect of the decree of the California court admitted in evidence and which distributed the cash and bonds in custody of the plaintiff in Los Angeles. The theory advanced in the argument in support of the decision attacked by the instant appeal is that the consent of the plaintiff to the California decree amounted to a conversion of the property, justifying the Oregon court in casting the plaintiff in judgment here.
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