Meier v. Kelly

This is a suit to determine an adverse claim to real estate, and is before this court the second time for adjudication. (Meier v. Kelly, 20 Or. 86.) The facts are that in February, 1876, one O. M. Carter borrowed of Catherine Quinney, one thousand two hundred dollars, for which he executed his note, due one year after date, and intending to secure the payment of the same by mortgage upon the southeast quarter of subdivision twenty-six of block C, of Carter’s addition to the city of Portland, executed to her a mortgage; hut by mutual mistake of the parties the property was described as lots…