Robinson v. Scott
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Calvin U. Gantenbein, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mb. Justice Habéis. H. N. Scott having filed a disclaimer, the parties who are now waging this contest are the plaintiff, W. M. Robinson, and the defendant, Victor Land Company, a corporation. Robinson and the corporation are each asserting title adverse to the other in two lots in Portland, Oregon, and each is attempting to free such title from certain described clouds.
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From Multnomah: Calvin U. Gantenbein, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mb. Justice Habéis. H. N. Scott having filed a disclaimer, the parties who are now waging this contest are the plaintiff, W. M. Robinson, and the defendant, Victor Land Company, a corporation. Robinson and the corporation are each asserting title adverse to the other in two lots in Portland, Oregon, and each is attempting to free such title from certain described clouds. The plaintiff traces his claim of title to two deeds: (1) A quitclaim deed from Walter A. Goss, and (2) a quitclaim deed from Florence C. Roberts, George…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harris
1. Neither the decree of divorce rendered in Washington Territory nor the subsequent modification of that decree by the Superior Court of Pierce County, Washington, conferred upon Helen L. Walker any title which her husband had to land in Oregon, and consequently the quitclaim deed which Helen L. Walker made to the Victor Land Company on August 30, 1910, was worthless, for the reason that she had no interest to convey. The divorce decree which Helen L. Walker obtained in Washington did not so operate upon Section 511, L. O. L., as to convey to her any estate in the Oregon land, because that…
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