Groesbeck v. Groesbeck
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: Bobert Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Bean. This is a .suit for a decree declaring the plaintiffs Nicholas O. Groesbeck, Mary E. Packard, Jacob A. Groesbeck and Charles D. Groesbeck, each to be the owner of an undivided one-sixth interest in certain real property in Union County, and that the defendant holds the legal title to such interests in trust for them. The plaintiffs and defendant are the heirs at law of Stephen V. Groesbeck, deceased.
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From Union: Bobert Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Bean. This is a .suit for a decree declaring the plaintiffs Nicholas O. Groesbeck, Mary E. Packard, Jacob A. Groesbeck and Charles D. Groesbeck, each to be the owner of an undivided one-sixth interest in certain real property in Union County, and that the defendant holds the legal title to such interests in trust for them. The plaintiffs and defendant are the heirs at law of Stephen V. Groesbeck, deceased. In the spring of 1901, Mr. .Groesbeck, at the solicitation of his children, sold 40 acres of land in Utah, and, through the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bean
1. We are of the opinion that the decree should be affirmed. The evidence shows that prior to his removal to Oregon, and until his death, Stephen V. Groesbeck was in an advanced stage of senile decay, which, if it did not incapacitate him from intelligently transacting business, rendered him easily susceptible to the influence of those associated with him; that after the removal to Oregon, and after making it so disagreeable for the other children that they felt compelled to leave the place, defendant conceived the idea of obtaining a deed to himself and his brother Thomas for the Oregon…
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