Merchant's National Bank v. Pope
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for the county of Mnltnomah. The respondent commenced an action against the appellant and one H. G. McDonald to recover an alleged balance of account between them and the Northwest Trading Company, claimed to have been assigned to the respondent.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for the county of Mnltnomah. The respondent commenced an action against the appellant and one H. G. McDonald to recover an alleged balance of account between them and the Northwest Trading Company, claimed to have been assigned to the respondent. It was alleged in the complaint that the said company was a private corporation; that the appellant and McDonald were partners in the mercantile business at Portland, Oregon, under the firm name of George Pope & Co.; that at divers times between the twelfth day of March, 1886, and the tenth day of March,…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, C. J.
The counsel for the appellant contends that a circuit court cannot properly interfere with the findings of a referee regarding any fact as to which there is a conflict of evidence, and insists that there was evidence in this case tending to prove that the said firm of Geo. Pope & Co. *42was to receive five per cent commissions on all shipments and sales of oil and fish, and that the said circuit court should have left undisturbed the finding of fact by the referees upon that question. He also contends that there was no evidence authorizing said circuit court to allow to the trading company…
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