Stalker v. Stalker
Oregon Supreme Court
From Baker: Gustav Anderson, Judge. Statement by Me. Chief Justice Moore. • This is a suit by E. Lucille Stalker and others against Alexander R. Stalker and others to quiet the title to real property.
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From Baker: Gustav Anderson, Judge. Statement by Me. Chief Justice Moore. • This is a suit by E. Lucille Stalker and others against Alexander R. Stalker and others to quiet the title to real property. The material facts are that on March 22, 1882, when Section 5352, Revised Statutes of the United States, denouncing bigamy, was amended, Emily E. Stalker was a plural wife of Alexander Stalker, and both were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and then residing in the territory of Idaho, where their sons and daughters, the plaintiffs, were bom prior to January 1, 1883, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
It is contended that as Emily E. Stalker was living upon the land in Baker County, Oregon, when Alexander Stalker returned to Idaho, she did not take possession of the premises under any contract that the title to the real property should be conveyed to her; for which reason an error was committed in rendering the decree brought up for review. In Roberts v. Templeton, 48 Or. 65 (80 Pac. 481, 3 L. R. A. (N. S.) 790), it was held that where the plaintiff, up to the time of his oral purchase of the interest of a tenant in common in a mine, was in possession…
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- Ankeny v. BlakleyOregon Supreme Court · 1903
- Barrett v. SchleichOregon Supreme Court · 1900
- Sprague v. JessupOregon Supreme Court · 1905
- Roberts v. TempletonOregon Supreme Court · 1905
- Tonseth v. LarsenOregon Supreme Court · 1914
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