Rose v. Oliver
Oregon Supreme Court
From Josephine: Hiero K. Hanna, Judge. Suit by Anton Rose against Joseph R. Oliver and -others to compel the specific performance of a contract alleged to have been made by the ancestor of defendants. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolverton
This is a suit to require the heirs of one Antone Joseph, deceased, to specifically perform a certain contract alleged to have been entered into between plaintiff and the said Joseph, whereby Joseph agreed to make and execute a will devising and bequeathing all his property at the date of his death to the plaintiff, to the exclusion of his other heirs at law. The deceased was a Portuguese, formerly from the Island of Pico, who settled in Josephine County some years prior to 1874. The plaintiff is of the same nationality, a nephew, and went from Boston, Massachusetts, to California, in 1873,…
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