10 Or. 491 | Or. | 1883
This was an action of ejectment. The complaint is in the usual form. The answer denies the allegations of the complaint, and alleges that the defendant is the owner and entitled to the possession of the land in controversy. It also alleges, as a further separate answer, that the city of Portland caused the said real estate to be sold for an assessment made by said city for a street improvement, and that said city became the purchaser thereof, and took a deed to the same, and thereafter conveyed the same to the defendant, &c.; all of which is put in issue by the reply. A jury was empaneled, and a verdict found for the defendant by direction of the court. The plaintiff claims title under a sheriff’s sale made in an action of Ira F. Powers v. C. M. Carrier and Levi Estes in the county court of Multnomah county. The judgment roll shows that the summons was served on C. M. Carter on the 23d day of March, 1876, and that judgment was rendered on the 3d day of .April, 1876; and plaintiff claims that Carter is the owner of the land in dispute by virtue of a chain of conveyances, which we are not required by this record to consider, and to which further reference is unnecessary. The defendant, to maintain the issues on his part, put in evidence a chain of conveyances through which he claimed title; to all of which objections were made and exceptions taken, but the further consideration of which, as well as the exceptions taken to the evidence offered in rebuttal thereof, becomes immaterial to our present inquiry, as will now appear. After the case closed, the court instructed the jury that the judgment of' the county court in the case of Powers v. Carter & Estes was void as to Carter, and directed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, which was done accordingly. The
Judgment reversed.