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58 Or. 409

Dufur v. Nelson

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided April 19, 1911

Oregon Supreme Court · decided 1911-04-19

From Wasco: William L. Bradshaw. Judge, Statement Per Curiam. This is a suit by A. J. Dufur and Mary Dufur against W. F. Nelson, trustee, and the Great Southern Eailroad Company, a corporation, in which, on motion of plaintiffs, the Great Southern Land Company, was made a party defendant, to set aside certain deeds made by the plaintiffs to defendant Nelson, and by him to the Great Southern Land Company. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, defendants appeal.

Dismissed · Decided 1911-04-19

¶1Opinion

Per Curiam.

¶2In this case it seems that during the progress of the trial the plaintiffs discovered that the land in question had been conveyed by the defendant Nelson to the Great Southern Land Company, a stranger to the suit. On motion of plaintiffs, at this juncture, the court entered an order making the land company a party defendant. The amended complaint was filed, and nothing was done in that respect, except, perhaps, to write the name of *410the land company in the title of the cause in the original complaint as a defendant.

¶3The land company filed an answer identical in terms with the answer of the other defendants; but, in the absence of any sort of allegation in the complaint in any way alluding to it, the court is powerless to enter a decree binding the Great Southern Land Company. We are convinced that the plaintiffs have made a good case on the testimony against all the defendants; but, without allegations to support a cause of suit against the one confessedly holding the legal title to the real property in dispute, all that can be done is to dismiss this suit, without costs or prejudice to any cause of suit or action heretofore or now existing in favor of plaintiffs, or either of them, against any or all of the defendants answering herein.

¶4It is so ordered and decreed. Dismissed.

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