61 P. 735 | Or. | 1900
after making the foregoing statement of the facts, delivered the opinion.
It is uncontroverted that in 1894 the board of commissioners of public buildings purchased from the defendants Hutchinson Brothers 140 acres of land in Union County for a branch insane asylum, under an act of the legislature approved February 21, 1893 (Laws 1893, p. 136), and paid therefor the sum of $5,600. The land