Portland Trust Co. v. Coulter
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County. Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. Plaintiffs appeal. In 1890 Samuel Coulter began actions of ejectment against several persons to recover possession of sundry parcels of land, and at the trial was defeated. On appeal the judgments were reversed: Goulter v. Portland Trust Co. 20 Or. 469 (26 Pac. Rep. 565), because the authority given by a certain power of attorney in defendant’s chain of title had been exceeded.
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Multnomah County. Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. Plaintiffs appeal. In 1890 Samuel Coulter began actions of ejectment against several persons to recover possession of sundry parcels of land, and at the trial was defeated. On appeal the judgments were reversed: Goulter v. Portland Trust Co. 20 Or. 469 (26 Pac. Rep. 565), because the authority given by a certain power of attorney in defendant’s chain of title had been exceeded. Before the cases came on for a second trial, the defendants in the several ejectment actions joined as plaintiffs and brought this suit in equity to restrain Coulter from…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
1. The facts in this case for the purpose of this appeal are identical with those in Coulter v. Portland Trust Co. 20 Or. 469 (26 Pac. Rep. 565), and fully appear in that case as reported, and therefore need not be detailed here. The important question on this appeal is the same as in the former case, and is the proper construction of the power of attorney from Howard H. Palmer to his wife, Rhoda A. Palmer, and whether this power of attorney authorized her to convey the land in controversy to W. G. Jenne for the consideration and in the manner attempted. These questions were all fully argued…
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