Baker v. LEHRER

This is a proceeding brought by the plaintiff, Stewart Y. Baker, for a declaratory judgment defining certain rights and duties of the defendant lessors and the plaintiff lessee with respect to each other under the terms of a lease to a certain parcel of resort property bordering on Langdon Lake, in Umatilla County. From a decree declaring that plaintiff no longer has any rights or interests under the lease, except the right to remove buildings constructed on the property described therein, the plaintiff appeals.

Notwithstanding the nature of the pleadings, the real purpose of this proceeding…