White v. White
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: E. D. Shat tuck, Judge. Actions of ejectment by Isaac L. White, Ella W. Tichner and Gertrude White against Zipporah White. This cause, and three others between the same parties, and involving the same state of facts, except that they were concerning separate parcels of real property, were, by stipulation of the parties, consolidated and tried together.
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From Multnomah: E. D. Shat tuck, Judge. Actions of ejectment by Isaac L. White, Ella W. Tichner and Gertrude White against Zipporah White. This cause, and three others between the same parties, and involving the same state of facts, except that they were concerning separate parcels of real property, were, by stipulation of the parties, consolidated and tried together. The action is in ejectment, and plaintiffs claim title to the property involved as heirs at law of Levi White, their father; and the defendant, by virtue of a deed from him, signed, sealed, and acknowledged January 17, 1894. The…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Me. Chiee Justice Wolveeton,
after making the foregoing statement of the facts, delivered the opinion.
The contention of counsel for plaintiffs in the court below was that the deed in question was not delivered within the lifetime of Levi White, the grantor ; that it was his design “to hold these lands during his life, and when, in the course of nature, he was forced to relinquish them, that they should then go to the respondent” *147(in other words, that he intended the deed should operate as a will, and take effect at his death, and that in the meantime it was ambulatory in its nature, subject to…
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