110 P. 980 | Or. | 1910
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant T. E. Bledsoe, assignee in bankruptcy of defendants W. H. Stark and H. H. Stark, partners, comprising the firm of the Stark Lumber Company, insolvent debtors, has appealed from a decree foreclosing an alleged logger’s lien, filed on January 23, 1908, by A. J. Levins and Elmer Chambers, partners under the firm name of Levins & Chambers, claiming a lien upon a number of sawlogs and a quantity of lumber manufactured therefrom for work done in cutting and delivering logs. The suit is prosecuted by Levins as the sole owner of the claim, who alleges in his complaint that after the filing of the lien notice,, and prior to the commencement of the suit, the partnership firm of Levins & Chambers, for a valuable consideration, assigned and transferred to him their demand under the said lien, and that he is the owner and holder thereof. This averment is denied by the answer. On direct examination, plaintiff testified in general terms that such an assignment had been made, but on cross-examination he admitted that such was not the fact; that he was not the owner of the whole claim; that he and Chambers are still partners; and that Chambers still owns his share. Again, in response to leading questions on redirect examination, he was induced to say that for the purpose of this suit there was a verbal agreement between Chambers and himself. On re-cross-examination, however, he stated that he had not purchased Chambers’ interest, but that Chambers told him to take it (referring to this claim) and take care of it, as he was going away and would not be there.
The decree will therefore be set aside, and the suit dismissed. Reversed: Suit Dismissed.