Steel v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. The plaintiff; as administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Ben Holladay, deceased, brings this suit against the city of Portland, George W. Weidler, Linda Holladay, Ben Campbell Holladay, minor heirs of the said Ben Holladay, and C. B. Bellinger, their guardian, for the purpose of obtaining a decree declaring the fee simple title to blocks numbered 132, 133, 140, and 141, known as the Holladay Park,…
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Multnomah County: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. Plaintiff appeals. The plaintiff; as administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Ben Holladay, deceased, brings this suit against the city of Portland, George W. Weidler, Linda Holladay, Ben Campbell Holladay, minor heirs of the said Ben Holladay, and C. B. Bellinger, their guardian, for the purpose of obtaining a decree declaring the fee simple title to blocks numbered 132, 133, 140, and 141, known as the Holladay Park, in said city, to be held in trust by defendant Weidler for the benefit of the estate of said Ben Holladay, deceased,…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
This is a suit to quiet title to a block of land in Holladay’s Addition to East Portland, now in the consolidated city of Portland. A decree was rendered by the court below for the defendant upon the ground that the land in question had been dedicated to the public for use as a public park, and from this decree the plaintiff has appealed.
The facts as we gather them from the evidence are, that the land in question is a portion of a tract of 241.94 acres, purchased by Ben Holladay in his lifetime of Jacob Wheeler and wife, and by him conveyed to George W. Weidler as trustee on the sixth day of…
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