Conley v. Henderson

The plaintiff, James L. Conley, brought this suit against S. E. Henderson and others, seeking to have two deeds, absolute in form, declared to be a mortgage. In and by one of said deeds, Conley and wife had conveyed to S. E. Henderson 920 acres of tim berland in Douglas county, Oregon. In and by the other deed, under Conley’s direction, the Wallingwood Company, a corporation the stock of which was owned by Conley, had conveyed to Henderson the west 54 feet ■of lot 10, block 271, Couch Addition to the city of Portland, together with an apartment house thereon known as the Teshner Manor. Both…