Parker v. Kelsey
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: John W. Knowles, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. This is a suit by Violet Parker and Thomas H. Parker, her husband, against Grace Kelsey, widow and executrix of the estate of L. S. Kelsey, deceased, and others, to quiet title to a certain quarter-section of realty in -Union County.
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From Union: John W. Knowles, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. This is a suit by Violet Parker and Thomas H. Parker, her husband, against Grace Kelsey, widow and executrix of the estate of L. S. Kelsey, deceased, and others, to quiet title to a certain quarter-section of realty in -Union County. The complaint alleges that she is the owner in fee simple of the land, and that since the year 1900 she and her husband have been in the continuous, exclusive, visible, open and notorious adverse possession of the tract under assertion of right claiming at all times to own the same as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
There is no contention in the testimony but that the plaintiffs, Violet Parker and her husband, have been in continuous possession of the premises since about February or March, 1899; that they have inclosed the same, farmed them either by themselves or by tenants every year, and, finally, that in 1913, shortly before the accidental death of her father, they built a small house and shed thereon. It is agreed, also that the plaintiffs have paid the taxes on the property every year since 1899. They base the title of Violet Parker on a parol gift of the land made to her by her father in the.…
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