Stannis v. Nicholson
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Benton County. This suit in equity was instituted to quiet the title and possession of Stannis, the respondent, to a certain piece of land, containing about eighty acres, situated in Benton county, Oregon.
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Appeal from Benton County. This suit in equity was instituted to quiet the title and possession of Stannis, the respondent, to a certain piece of land, containing about eighty acres, situated in Benton county, Oregon. In September, 1858, W. J. Robertson was the owner of this tract of land, and about that time respondent made a contract to purchase it for $180. Respondent paid the purchase money, took the bond of Robertson for title, and immediately entered into possession thereof, and made valuable and lasting improvements on it. Afterwards, on the .2Jth of January, 1860, Robertson confessed…
1Opinion of the CourtPrim, J.
The judgment confessed by Robertson in favor of appellant was docketed on the 27th of January, 1860, which thereby became a lien on the land in dispute from that date; *335but, at the time this lien took effect, respondent was in the possession and occupancy of the land under a contract to purchase the land, entered into prior to that time with the judgment debtor, Robertson. The purchase money had been paid, and Robertson had executed a bond obligating himself to convey the legal title at some future time. Then, it will be seen that the equitable title to the land in question was already in…
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