| Or. | Jul 23, 1918
1, 2. There is no allegation as to the time of payments on the contracts of purchase contained in the answer of these defendants except as shown above: Title Ins. & Trust Co. v. Northwestern Long-Distance Telephone Co., 88 Or. 666" court="Or." date_filed="1918-05-21" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/title-insurance--trust-co-v-northwestern-long-distance-telephone-co-6906302?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="6906302">88 Or. 666 (173 Pac. 251). It will therefore be seen that no dates of such payments are fixed. The payments for which the purchasing defendants claim a lien may have been made at any time between the dates of their respective contracts, and the time when they each ceased making payments, which is not definitely stated. According to the weight
In order for the appealing defendants to be benefited by this equitable rule, it was incumbent upon them to allege and prove as a basis for their claim that the payments made by them upon their respective tracts of land were made prior to plaintiff’s mortgages, or prior to the other liens.
These defendants are not claiming an equitable right to purchase the land, by virtue of their contracts to purchase, but assert an equitable claim of lien by reason of the partial payments made for the tracts of land. Therefore, their equities would arise, not at the time of the execution of the contract as alleged in their answer, but at the time of the partial payments made by them.
“Every conveyance of real property within this state hereafter made, which shall not be recorded as provided in this title within five days thereafter, shall be void against any subsequent purchaser in good*359 faith, and for a valuable consideration of the same real property, or any portion thereof, whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded.”
Before the plaintiff would be required to show that its mortgages were acquired in good faith, without knowledge or notice of the equities of the appealing defendants, it would be necessary for such defendants to allege that the payments for which they claim an equity were made prior to plaintiff’s mortgages.
Defendants and appellants have not done this, and therefore have not brought themselves within the rule announced in the cases of: Baker v. Woodward, 12 Or. 3" court="Or." date_filed="1884-12-22" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/baker-v-woodward-6894544?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="6894544">12 Or. 3 (6 Pac. 173); Raymond v. Flavel, 27 Or. 219" court="Or." date_filed="1895-04-29" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/raymond-v-flavel-6896832?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="6896832">27 Or. 219 (40 Pac. 158); Rhodes v. McGarry, 19 Or. 222" court="Or." date_filed="1890-05-12" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/rhodes-v-mcgarry-6895631?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="6895631">19 Or. 222 (23 Pac. 971); Barnes v. Spencer, 79 Or. 205, 214 (153 Pac. 47).
The question here involved, as to the dates of the payments upon these contracts, is identical with that discussed by Mr. Justice Benson in the case of Green v. Linnhaven Orchard Company et al., in which an opinion has this day been rendered, to which reference is hereby made. It is shown that the plaintiff’s mortgages were executed by the Orchard Company to secure a loan of $14,500, of which $9,500 was obtained to satisfy prior mortgages given for the purchase price of the land. The loan was made, and the security taken in good faith. .
It follows that the decree of the lower court must be affirmed, and it is so ordered. Aeeirmed.