Pugh v. Spicknall
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: Reuben P. Boise, Judge. This is a suit to enjoin the prosecution of an action at law. The facts are that plaintiff’s father having died seized of certain real property in- Marion County, forty acres thereof were set apart to her mother, the defendant, as her dower, the reversion thereto being vested in the plaintiff, her brother, and three sisters.
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From Marion: Reuben P. Boise, Judge. This is a suit to enjoin the prosecution of an action at law. The facts are that plaintiff’s father having died seized of certain real property in- Marion County, forty acres thereof were set apart to her mother, the defendant, as her dower, the reversion thereto being vested in the plaintiff, her brother, and three sisters. In October, 1891, the defendant leased the land so assigned to her, for the term of five years, to the plaintiff, who entered into possession and built a small house thereon, in which she lived with her family. The plaintiff (Johanna…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Moore
The plaintiff, as a witness in her own behalf, testifies that on October 3,1891, she leased, for a term of five years, her mother’s farm, including said forty acres, stipulating to pay as rent therefor one third of the crops grown thereon ; that in July, 1896, intending to leave the premises at the expiration of the lease, she sought to buy other property with a view of making her home elsewhere, and for that purpose went with her mother to examine a tract of land offered for sale, but desiring the plaintiff to remain on the premises, so that she might be near her and care for her in her…
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