Oregon Farm Bureau v. Thompson

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Oregon Farm Bureau, an Oregon insurance corporation, from a decree which the circuit court entered in favor of the defendants Frank Thompson and Dean Kellar. The suit which ended in the challenged decree was instituted by the plaintiff under ORS 28.010 through 28.160 to secure a declaration of the rights of the parties under a policy of liability insurance issued by it July 5,1960, to the defendant Thompson. Thompson, who identified himself (1) in his 1960 federal income tax return as a “logger” and (2) in his testimony as “a tree farmer,” owned a tract of…