Wycoff v. Snapp
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lane: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice McBride. This is a suit by Jesse P. Wycoff, Chester A. Wycoff, Etba May Baier, and Chauncey Wycoff and Archie This is a suit by Jesse P. Wycoff, Chester A. Wycoff, Etha May Baier, and Chauncey Wycoff and Archie The circumstances out of which this suit arose are as follows: James W. Wycoff died in 1905, leaving a widow, Emma B. Wycoff, now Emma B. Snapp, and five children, who are the…
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From Lane: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice McBride. This is a suit by Jesse P. Wycoff, Chester A. Wycoff, Etba May Baier, and Chauncey Wycoff and Archie This is a suit by Jesse P. Wycoff, Chester A. Wycoff, Etha May Baier, and Chauncey Wycoff and Archie The circumstances out of which this suit arose are as follows: James W. Wycoff died in 1905, leaving a widow, Emma B. Wycoff, now Emma B. Snapp, and five children, who are the plaintiffs in this suit. At the time of his death the decedent and his family were residing upon the land in dispute as a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice McBride.
1. We are again called upon to construe the homestead exemption act, which may truthfully be said to be one of the best intended and worst drawn laws upon the statute books. In Mansfield v. Hill, 56 Or. 400 (107 Pac. 471, 108 Pac. 1007), we had occasion to construe the words “such homestead shall descend as if death did not exist,” which are meaningless in themselves, and, after much consideration, were of the opinion that by some oversight or clerical error the word “death” had crept into the act in place of “exemption,” and construed the act as if the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mansfield v. HillOregon Supreme Court · 1910
3Cited by15 opinions
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