Union Land Associates v. Ussher

On April 5, 1943, the plaintiff corporation, engaged among other things in the business of selling oyster beds, sold to the defendant for $2,000, ten oyster beds, described as follows:

‘ ‘ Comprising one and one-quarter acres more or less, situated in the form of a square in the southeasterly quarter of Lot No. 23, Biggs Cove Oyster Claims, according to the duly recorded plat of oyster claims in Tillamook County, Oregon.”

Pursuant to the written contract of sale, a note in the sum of $500 was executed by defendant in favor of the plaintiff as part payment.

This action was commenced by plaintiff…