Topolos v. Skotheim

On the Merits.

This is a suit for the rescission of an exchange of properties upon the ground of fraud. The complaint, which is lengthy, sets up in substance that the plaintiff, Nick Topolos, in October, 1922, was the owner of a hotel lease, together with the furniture, fixtures and fittings therefor, known as the Norris Hotel and situated in the City of Portland; that the defendant J. W. Adams was presumably the owner of a certain farm in Walla Walla County, Washington, having a deed to the same in blank; that the defendant O. H. Skotheim was engaged in the real estate business in the City of…