162 P. 256 | Or. | 1917
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case seems to us to fall within the purview of Section 103, L. O. L., which provides that the court “may, * * in its discretion, and upon such terms as may be just at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment * taken against him through * * mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
In his application for relief from the judgment, appellant offers to submit to such terms as the court may impose. We think that terms should be imposed, for appellant’s counsel was certainly at fault. The order will therefore be that the judgment be reversed, provided that appellant deposits with the clerk of this eourt, within 30 days, the costs and disbursements of respondent in the Circuit Court and in this court; in default of such deposit, judgment to be affirmed.
We have examined all the authorities to which our attention has been directed by the parties, but it would serve no good purpose to review them. We think that the conclusions reached are supported by the doctrine of the following cases: Higgins v. Seaman, 61 Or. 240 (122 Pac. 40); Anderson v. Scotland (C. C.), 17 Fed. 667; Virginia Co. v. Harris, 151 Fed. 428 (80 C. C. A. 658).
It is proper to add that by this opinion we make no reflection on the counsel who appears for respondent on the presentation of this appeal. The record shows