Love v. Lindstedt
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: George N. Davis, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is a suit by Green C. Love against Edwin Lindstedt to compel specific performance of a contract to purchase land.
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From Multnomah: George N. Davis, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is a suit by Green C. Love against Edwin Lindstedt to compel specific performance of a contract to purchase land. The complaint alleges, in substance, that in October, 1914, plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract whereby plaintiff agreed to sell, and defendant to purchase, lots 7 and 16 in block 5, in Green C. Love’s Addition to the City of Portland, for the sum of $1,650, to be paid November 7, 1914, upon the payment of which plaintiff was to execute to defendant a deed to the premises; that…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McBride
1-4. One phase of this case was before the court in Love v. Walker, 59 Or. 95 (115 Pac. 296), and we there *72held that the will and codicil gave plaintiff a life estate in the property with a remainder over to his issue. Frank Souers and Inita Souers, now Inita Souers Dixon, the grandchildren of plaintiff, were living at the time of the death of Lewis Love, and they therefore had a contingent remainder, because the fee in any event could only vest in such of them as survived plaintiff: 1 Tiffany, Real Property, § 120. The remainder over to the devisees is a contingent remainder, being…
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