Phipps v. Stancliff
Oregon Supreme Court
From Douglas: J. W. Hamilton, Judge. Department 2. This is an action for the possession of lot 9 of section 33, Tp. 38 S., R. 6 W., W. M., in Douglas County, Oregon. The Circuit Court dismissed the action. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion
Reversed and remanded on rehearing January 14, 1924.
On Rehearing.
(222 Pac. 328.)
For respondent there was a brief over the name of Messrs. Wimberly & Cordon. McCOURT, J.
This is an action in ejectment. The title asserted by plaintiff is based on adverse possession. The land in controversy is a forty-acre tract, located within the limits of the grant of public lands to the Oregon & California Bailroad Company, made by act of Congress, approved July 25, 1866 (14 U. S. Stats, at L. 239), as amended by the Act of April 10, 1869 (16 U. S. Stats, at L. 47). Legal title to the lands in question passed…
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