Bickel v. Wessinger
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Earl C. Bronaugh, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. In January, 1895, the plaintiff, Frederick Bickel, gave a mortgage to the United States Mortgage & Trust Company for $50,000 on block 32 in the city of Portland, the property in dispute, and afterwards on July 26, 1898, he gave a second mortgage on the same property to Henry Weinhard for $10,000, evidenced by his promissory note of that date.
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From Multnomah: Earl C. Bronaugh, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. In January, 1895, the plaintiff, Frederick Bickel, gave a mortgage to the United States Mortgage & Trust Company for $50,000 on block 32 in the city of Portland, the property in dispute, and afterwards on July 26, 1898, he gave a second mortgage on the same property to Henry Weinhard for $10,000, evidenced by his promissory note of that date. Also on July 26, 1898, he gave another note and second mortgage to Weinhard for $10,000 on the north half of block 9 In Couch’s Addition to the city of Portland. In May, 1900, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
There are other circumstances in evidence, but the corner stone of plaintiff’s case is the conversation of July 12th already quoted. At the outset it is due to the memory of Henry Weinhard to say that the record does not disclose that he ever did an act or uttered a word inconsistent with the statement thus attributed to him by plaintiff. Further, so far as the record reveals, there is no showing whatever, as against any of the parties, of that cunning craftiness and deceit which makes fraud so detestable to honest men. The attitude of all these litigants seems to be that of those who, not…
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