Lamb v. Wakefield
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
[This was a bill in equity by John R. Lamb and Emma Lamb, his wife, and Ida Squires against L. H. Wakefield, Henry W. Corbett, John Connor, J. P. O. Lownsdale, Ruth A. Lownsdale, and Mary E. Cooper, for partition of certain real estate. The case is heard upon bill, answer, and proofs taken.]
1Opinion of the Court
DEADY, District Judge.
This suit was commenced August 7, 1869, for partition of block 252, in the city of Portland, and to apportion and provide for the payment of a certain lien thereon of $1,423.92. On October 2, 1869, the defendants, Wakefield, Con-nor and Corbett, demurred to the bill for misjoinder of parties defendant and for multifariousness, because such defendants were not all interested in the whole premises, but only in separate and different portions of it. After argument the demurrer was overruled for the reason that as the lien for the owelty extended to the whole premises, it…
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