Manning v. Gregoire
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 1. The plaintiffs claim that they are now and for forty-three years last past have been the owners in fee simple of a tract of land in Marion County, and have been in the open, notorious, exclusive, and adverse possession of said premises for forty-three years next prior to the commencement of this suit; that the defendant claims some right, title and estate in the property, which claim is without right, and that she has no…
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From Marion: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 1. The plaintiffs claim that they are now and for forty-three years last past have been the owners in fee simple of a tract of land in Marion County, and have been in the open, notorious, exclusive, and adverse possession of said premises for forty-three years next prior to the commencement of this suit; that the defendant claims some right, title and estate in the property, which claim is without right, and that she has no title whatsoever to the land or any part thereof. The prayer is for the decree usual in suits to quiet title. The answer…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
1. The testimony is to the effect that the predecessors in title of the parties owned adjoining lands and some time prior to 1875 built a fence through the timber on the blazed line of an old survey, the north half of which fence was designated as belonging to the plaintiff’s predecessor, and the south half- to the defendant’s predecessor. The plaintiffs acquired title to the property on the west side of the fence in 1875. They afterward cleared out the timber from nearly all of the tract in dispute, reduced the clearing to cultivation and have continuously maintained their possession up to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Dunnigan v. WoodOregon Supreme Court · 1911
- Krueger v. BrooksOregon Supreme Court · 1919
- Stout v. MichelbookOregon Supreme Court · 1911
- Gist v. DokeOregon Supreme Court · 1902
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- Davis v. TantAlaska Supreme Court · 1961
- Estate of GerhardusOregon Supreme Court · 1925
- Cooley v. HendersonOregon Supreme Court · 1924
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