Ferguson v. Vance

The plaintiff filed this proceeding asking for a declaration of the respective rights of the parties to a parcel of real property in Bend and for general equitable relief. The court decreed that the plaintiff was the owner of the property subject to a lien in favor of defendant Dymple Ferguson Vance. Plaintiff appealed from that portion of the decree which gave defendant a lien on the property.

The controlling facts are not in dispute. R. A. Ferguson, plaintiff’s father, died intestate on September 26, 1960, survived by his widow Dymple Ferguson, hereinafter referred to as the defendant,(1)…