52 P. 22 | Or. | 1900
Lead Opinion
Decided 7 February, 1898.
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
[52 Pac. 22.]
It is contended by plaintiff’s counsel that this notice does not describe the decree of which the defendants complain with the degree of certainty necessary for identification, and hence does not confer upon this court jurisdiction of the cause. It will be observed that, in referring to the amount recovered by plaintiff from J. B. and Carrie M. Elwert, it is stated therein to be $470 and $15.50, the sum of which is $485.50, the amount so awarded ; but there is an error in the date from which the interest is to be computed, and a failure to allude to the costs and disbursements recovered in the action. The notice correctly describes the amount so recovered from Carrie M. Elwert, but states that it bears interest from April 9, 1896, — an error in the date from which the interest is to be computed ; and it also fails to mention the costs and disbursements. The abstract of the record shows that plaintiff recovered from the defendants J. B., Carrie M., and C. P. Elwert the costs and disbursements of this suit, taxed at $147.80, while the notice of appeal seems to describe a judgment against J. B. and Carrie M. Elwert only, for the costs, taxed at $170.20, — a failure to designate one of the parties defendant, and a misstatement of the amount awarded; but it appears from what is de
Opinion on the Merits
Decided 29 January, 1900.
On the Merits.
[59 Pac. 805.1
delivered the opinion.
This is a suit to set aside certain deeds of real estate and a chattel mortgage, to cancel the assignment of several promissory notes and mortgages, and to subject the property and securities affected thereby to the satisfaction of plaintiff’s judgments. The facts are that plaintiff, on April 6,1896, obtained a judgment against the defendant Carrie M. Elwert in the Justice’s Court for East Portland District for the sum of $225 and $17.10 costs, and within the time prescribed by law caused the same to be docketed in the judgment docket of the Circuit Court for Multnomah County, and on September 6, 1896, he obtained a judgment against the defendants Mrs. J. B. Elwert and her daughter, the said Carrie M. Elwert, in said circuit court,for the sum of $470 and $15.50 costs. Executions were issued on said judgments, and delivered to the sheriff of said county, who, being unable to find any property of either of said defendants upon which he could levy, returned them wholly unsatisfied. It appears from the transcript that Mrs. Elwert, until March 12, 1894, was the owner in fee of lot 4 and the south five feet of lot 3, in block 218, in the City of Portland, upon which she erected a new building in 1893, and also repaired an old one ; that she loaned money, taking promissory notes payable to her order, secured by real estate mortgages, executed by the persons, on the dates, and for the sums following, to wit: William Morton, November 10,1890, $7,500 ; A. K. Yelton, February 9,1891, $3,500; Mary E. Knott, June 24, 1891, $3,000; R. S. Perkins, July 11, 1892, $27,500; P. A. Marquam, August 6, 1892, $15,000 ; and J. W. Hod-
Plaintiff, referring to the amount involved in his respective judgments, alleges “ that at the time of making said deeds, assignments, and transfers, and for a long time prior thereto, said J. B. Elwert and Carrie M. Elwert were indebted to this plaintiff in a large proportion of the sum before mentioned ; all of which the defendant C. P. Elwert knew at the time.” It is also alleged, in substance, in the complaint, that said conveyances and chattel mortgage were executed, and the notes and mortgages assigned, without any consideration therefor, and with the intent to hinder, delay, and defraud the creditors
Carrie M. Elwert testifies that her brother delivered to her $125,000 which was in the safe deposit, and gave her a key thereto, which she retained about two years, but she cannot remember when he gave it to her, nor can she give the number of the vault in which the money was deposited ; that she loaned her mother about $125,000, but destroyed the account thereof, and also all letters re
James N. Davis, an attorney, appearing as a witness for plaintiff, testifies that on March 12, 1894, he prepared and took Mrs. Elwert’s acknowledgment to a deed to her son of her property, and at that time Carrie, speaking of the reason for making it, said that people were taking
Aeeirmed.