Sanford v. Sanford
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. This is a suit in equity between two brothers, whose last name is Sanford, and whose first names are not in the record, but only their initials, C. W. of the plaintiff below and H. ~W. of the defendant below.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. This is a suit in equity between two brothers, whose last name is Sanford, and whose first names are not in the record, but only their initials, C. W. of the plaintiff below and H. ~W. of the defendant below. The suit was brought to enjoin proceedings in an action of ejectment commenced by the defendant below, the plaintiff in error here, and to charge the latter as trustee of the property, and compel its transfer to the plaintiff. In the nomenclature of the Code of Oregon, regulating procedure in civil cases, it is termed a cross-bill. It…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
By the Code of Oregon the findings of the court in an . equity case of this kind are as conclusive as similar findings would be in an action at law. Hill’s Annotated Laws of Oregon, sec. 397. They must therefore be taken as correct in the disposition of the question before us, they not having been set aside or qualified by any subsequent action of the court below. And upon them it is contended that the amendment to the declaratory statement of the defendant made-in 1884, by’which he was enabled to include within it the land in controversy, never occupied or improved by him, but at the time in…
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