Chapman v. Wilbur

By the Court,

Prim, J. :

This was a suit in equity to have certain deeds relating to block 221 in the city of Portland set aside and held for naught, and the title to said block decreed to be in complainant.

The material facts are as follows: On September 7, 1850, Stephen Coffin, D. H. Lownsdale and' W. W. Chapman, being in possession, conveyed two adjacent blocks of land known as blocks 205 and 224 in the city of Portland “to James H. Wilbur, trustee, for the use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oregon * * * for the purpose of erecting an academy thereon, and therewith * * * to…