Wells v. Neff
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County. Defendants Neff appeal. This suit is to partition a tract of land known as the Neff Donation Land Claim. The complaint is in the ordinary form, setting out the interests of the several owners as follows: In respondent Wells, four-ninths of whole claim, and six thirty-sixths of the Petty tract. In respondents Whalley and Fechheimer, one-sixth of whole claim, an undivided twelve and a half acres in whole claim, and one-sixth o£ the Petty tract.
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Multnomah County. Defendants Neff appeal. This suit is to partition a tract of land known as the Neff Donation Land Claim. The complaint is in the ordinary form, setting out the interests of the several owners as follows: In respondent Wells, four-ninths of whole claim, and six thirty-sixths of the Petty tract. In respondents Whalley and Fechheimer, one-sixth of whole claim, an undivided twelve and a half acres in whole claim, and one-sixth o£ the Petty tract. In respondent Page, one-sixth of the whole claim, less an undivided twelve and a half acres of whole claim. In respondent Budd,…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
This is a suit in equity for the partition of certain lands known as the Marcus Neff Donation Land Claim, in which the plaintiffs and defendants were interested as tenants in common. Without adverting to much preliminary matter now unnecessary for the consideration of the case, it .is sufficient to say that the object of the answer of the Neffs, and the evidence they produced to support it after issue joined, was to establish their equitable ownership to the respective portions of the land claimed by each and all the other parties to the suit, and to have the deeds held by them, respectively,…
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