Hansen v. Bellman

This is a suit to cancel certain deeds and mortgages involving real property in the city of Portland. A decree was rendered in favor of the plaintiff and defendants appeal.

The facts are delineated as follows: About twenty years prior to 1931 Louis Knerr had a $3,000 mortgage on the east half of Lots 3 and 4, Block 14, Williams Avenue Addition, in the city of Portland. He foreclosed this mortgage, and, according to the complaint, on August 31, 1931, became owner of the property, which consisted of a run-down and obsolete four-family flat. A few months prior to April 13, 1933, Mr. Knerr, in a…