Robinson v. Phegley
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah.: George N. Davis, Judge. Emma G. Robinson commenced this suit against Grant Phegley and from a decree rendered in favor of defendant dismissing the suit on demurrer, the plaintiff appeals. Reversed with directions. In Banc. Statement by Me. Justice McCamant.
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From Multnomah.: George N. Davis, Judge. Emma G. Robinson commenced this suit against Grant Phegley and from a decree rendered in favor of defendant dismissing the suit on demurrer, the plaintiff appeals. Reversed with directions. In Banc. Statement by Me. Justice McCamant. This is a suit brought to rescind two contracts entered into between the parties in the year 1907, under which plaintiff alleges that she paid the defendant $9,600. The suit is brought for the recovery of this sum and certain other damages which plaintiff claims she sustained. The case was tried in the lower court on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McCamant
The sole question raised by this appeal is the sufficiency of the third amended complaint to which the lower court sustained a demurrer. This complaint alleges that in the year 1907 Galice Consolidated Mines Company was an Oregon corporation owning valuable mining property situate in the State of Oregon, and that plaintiff was a stockholder who had invested $15,000, presumably in the purchase of stock. It is alleged that the defendant represented to plaintiff that he was the owner of valid claims against the corporation for “moneys actually paid, laid out and expended by him” for the…
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