Urquhart v. Belloni
Oregon Supreme Court
From Coos: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Statement by Mb. Justice Slater. This is a suit by Alexander Urquhart against George Belloni to quiet his title to 111 acres of land, of which but 17.90 acres are in actual controversy. This small piece of land, triangular in shape, forms the northwest half of lot 3, section 18, were that lot bisected by a diagonal line running from its southwest corner to a point near the northeast corner; such lot being nearly rectangular.
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From Coos: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Statement by Mb. Justice Slater. This is a suit by Alexander Urquhart against George Belloni to quiet his title to 111 acres of land, of which but 17.90 acres are in actual controversy. This small piece of land, triangular in shape, forms the northwest half of lot 3, section 18, were that lot bisected by a diagonal line running from its southwest corner to a point near the northeast corner; such lot being nearly rectangular. Plaintiff owned 265.41 acres of land, including said lot 3, all bounded on the north and west by the Coquille River in Coos County,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Slater
The deed from plaintiff to defendant describes by legal subdivisions the land conveyed, and it is admitted by defendant that the description covers or includes 154.41 acres of land, the full amount he claims to have purchased from plaintiff. But it is asserted that he understood his purchase was to include all the bottom land on the entire tract then owned by plaintiff; that the 17.90 acres in dispute is mostly bottom land; that it is not *319included in the description of the deed, but adjoins the land described on the east; that when plaintiff was showing him the land at the time of the…
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