Wallowa National Bank v. Riley
Oregon Supreme Court
From Wallowa: Robert Eakin, Judge. This is a suit in the nature of a creditor’s bill by the Wallowa National Bank to subject certain real estate, formerly owned by the defendant Levi W. Riley, to the payment of plaintiff’s judgment.
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From Wallowa: Robert Eakin, Judge. This is a suit in the nature of a creditor’s bill by the Wallowa National Bank to subject certain real estate, formerly owned by the defendant Levi W. Riley, to the payment of plaintiff’s judgment. The facts are that on August eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, plaintiff commenced an action at law against the defendant to recover money, and caused the land in question to be attached; that a judgment was subsequently rendered therein, and the land ordered sold; that prior to the levy of the writ of attachment Riley conveyed the land to his wife, and she…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bean.
Substantially the only question for our determination is whether a homestead under the laws of the United States is liable to seizure and sale for the satisfaction of a debt contracted after final proof and before patent issues. It is true, the contention was made at the argument that this case does not come within the provisions of the homestead law, because the notes upon which the action was based were given after the issuance of the patent. But in this view we are unable to concur. The notes in question were simply renewals of other notes, and evidence of…
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