Ruckman v. Union Railway Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: Robert Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit by George W. Ruckman against the Union Railway Company and the Union Street & Suburban Railway Company. In January, 1893, the Union Railway Company issued and delivered to J. W. Shelton twenty bonds, of the par value of $1,000 each, secured by mortgage on its property. Shelton sold four of the bonds, and they came into the hands of F. L. Richmond and W. T. Wright.
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From Union: Robert Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit by George W. Ruckman against the Union Railway Company and the Union Street & Suburban Railway Company. In January, 1893, the Union Railway Company issued and delivered to J. W. Shelton twenty bonds, of the par value of $1,000 each, secured by mortgage on its property. Shelton sold four of the bonds, and they came into the hands of F. L. Richmond and W. T. Wright. Wright and Richmond borrowed $1,500 of the First National Bank of Union on their promissory note, and deposited the four bonds as collateral security…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
Upon the record, we have substantially this state of facts: A party commenced a suit against another to compel the surrendering up for cancellation of negotiable instruments on the ground that they were never issued for value. Issue was joined, the suit tried on the merits, and a decree rendered in favor of the defendant. At the time the suit was commenced, the plaintiff therein had two other grounds upon which he might have recovered, neither of which, however, he set up or alleged in the complaint. Thereafter, when the defendant in the former suit, or the party who had succeeded to his…
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