135 P. 333 | Or. | 1913
delivered the opinion of the court.
“The effect of a judgment, decree, or final order in an action, suit, or proceeding before a court or judge thereof of this state or of the United States, having jurisdiction to pronounce the same is as follows: (1)*161 In case of a judgment, decree, or order against a specific thing, or in respect to the probate of a will or the administration of the estate of a deceased person, or in respect to the personal, political, or legal condition or relation of a particular person, the judgment, decree, or order is conclusive upon the title to the thing, the will or administration, or the condition or relation of the person. * * ”
This decree rendered by the County Court, in a matter over which it had general jurisdiction, under Article VII, Section 12 of the Constitution, conferring probate jurisdiction upon County Courts, and which has not yet been disturbed by legislation under the authority of the amendment to that article of the fundamental law, is conclusive as to the effect of the will in question.
Turning now to the terms of that document, we find that, after bequeathing to each of the plaintiffs in this suit the sum of one dollar it contained this provision: “Third: Having heretofore made and delivered unto my son, Charles Sappingfield, a deed to my donation land claim excepting my life estate therein, and it being my desire that he should have all of my property after my death not heretofore conveyed to him, I hereby give, bequeath and devise unto my said son Charles Sappingfield all the residue and remainder of my property of whatsoever kind and wheresoever found, and I hereby revoke expressly and declare null and void all wills heretofore by me made.” This instrument, thus authenticated and sanctioned by the decree of a court of competent general jurisdiction, conclusively shows not only that the title to the realty involved is not in the plaintiffs, but, on the other hand, is vested in the defendant Charles Sappingfield. If the deed, by reason of anything alleged in the complaint, was void, so that the property there described did not pass
The decree of the Circuit Court is reversed and the suit dismissed. Reversed : Suit Dismissed.