Crim v. Thompson
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clackamas: James U. Campbell, Judge. Department 1. The complaint charges that during the years 1912, 1913, and 1914 the plaintiff employed the defendant as a practicing attorney to attend to legal business for her and especially look after and protect her interests in her suit for divorce against her then husband,! pending in Multnomah County, and for the ejectment of him from her real property in Clackamas County. This is admitted by the answer.
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From Clackamas: James U. Campbell, Judge. Department 1. The complaint charges that during the years 1912, 1913, and 1914 the plaintiff employed the defendant as a practicing attorney to attend to legal business for her and especially look after and protect her interests in her suit for divorce against her then husband,! pending in Multnomah County, and for the ejectment of him from her real property in Clackamas County. This is admitted by the answer. The plaintiff further states, substantially, that afterwards the defendant frequently called upon the plaintiff to advance what he claimed to…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
1,2. A “cloud upon title” may be defined substantially as an estate in or encumbrance npon real property which is apparently valid but in fact without foundation: 2 Words & Phrases, 1233. No attack is made upon the validity of the judgment upon which the execution was issued. It was a valid, substantial claim upon the" realty of the plaintiff. The execution was fair upon its face, constituting authority to the sheriff to sell the land for want of personal property, as he certifies in his return. As the sale was confirmed without objection and it did not appear that when the cause came on for…
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