Wetherby v. Griswold
Oregon Supreme Court
Prom Multnomah: Henry E. McGinn, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit by George Wetherby (the Title & Trust Company, a corporation, with the will annexed of the estate of George Wetherby, deceased, Margarita Sanders and Anna Duncan, heirs at law of said George Wetherby, deceased, substituted as plaintiffs), against Jennie M. Griswold to enforce the specific performance of a contract to purchase land.
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Prom Multnomah: Henry E. McGinn, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit by George Wetherby (the Title & Trust Company, a corporation, with the will annexed of the estate of George Wetherby, deceased, Margarita Sanders and Anna Duncan, heirs at law of said George Wetherby, deceased, substituted as plaintiffs), against Jennie M. Griswold to enforce the specific performance of a contract to purchase land. The trial court decreed that defendant execute a conveyance and receive from plaintiff $1,760 deposited in court, and the additional sum of $1,500. Defendant appeals…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. It appears from the record that after the lease was prepared and forwarded by Wetherby for Miss *473Griswold to sign some question was raised as to the provision for a deed in case of purchase. The United States patent for the land to defendant’s .father, from whom she received a deed, did not mention the right of way or depot grounds of the railroad company. Anent this matter, on October 31, 1905, Wetherbv wrote the defendant’s brother, W. T. Griswold, in part as follows:
“The Patent purports to convey 161.76 acres, about twenty acres of which the O. E. & N. E. E. Go. holds, as station…
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