O'GORMAN v. Baker

(Pro Tempore)

Defendants appeal from decree quieting plaintiff’s title to approximately five acres of Clackamas County land. Questions involve interpretation of the description in a deed from defendants to plaintiff, executed November 30,1944, and adverse possession. The single assignment of error is based on entry of the decree. The disputed language reads:

“* * * thence parallel with the southerly line of said road [the Keil & Beckman Road] South 65° 16' 30" E. 956.4 feet more or less, to the center of the H. Longcoy County Road # 256, thence northerly in said road to the place of beginning.”

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