Case Name: FRANCIS v. BOHART
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1914-09-08
Citations: 76 Or. 1
Docket Number: 
Parties: FRANCIS v. BOHART.
Judges: Mr. Chief Justice Moore, Mr. Justice McBride and Mr. Justice Bean concur.
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 76
Pages: 1–8

Head Matter:
Motion to strike abstract of record from files denied September 8, 1914.
Argued and submitted on the merits March 11, reversed April 13, 1915.
FRANCIS v. BOHART.
(143 Pac. 920; 147 Pac. 755.)
Appeal and Error—Record—Objections.
1. Respondent’s remedy, when the appellant’s abstract misquotes the bill of exceptions and contains argumentative matter proper only for a brief, is to serve on the clerk of the Supreme Court and on appellant’s counsel an additional abstract, as prescribed by Supreme Court Rule 7 (56 Or. 616, 117 Pac. x), and not by motion to strike the abstract from the files.
ON THE MERITS.
Sales—“Conditional Sale.”
2. A contract whereby the possession of personal property is delivered to the buyer, who agrees to pay a price therefor with the condition that the title remain in the seller until the price is paid, is a conditional sale.
[As to what constitutes conditional sale, see notes in 46 Am. Rep. 295; 94 Am. St. Rep. 234. As to sale conditioned that title remain in vendor until payment, when and against whom fraudulent, see note in 58 Am. St. Rep. 386. As to sale conditional upon the final payment of the purchase price, see notes in 37 Am. Rep. 664; 40 Am. Rep. 21.]
Sales—Conditional Sale—Suit for Purchase Price—Effect.
3. Where one who sold goods under a conditional sale contract recovered judgment against the buyer for the purchase price and levied execution against part of the property, he thereby elected to treat the title as having passed to the buyer, and cannot thereafter retake the property under his reserved title.
[As to election of remedies, when resort to one bars the prosecution of another, see note in 1 Am. St. Rep. 626.]
From Lane: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge.
This is an action by I. M. Francis against W. A. Bohart. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals. Respondent moves to strike appellant’s abstract of record from the files.
Motion Denied.
Mr. Fred E. Smith, for the motion.
Mr. H. E. Slattery, contra.

Opinion:
Opinion
Per Curiam.
The plaintiff respondent moves to strike from the files the appellant's abstract of record, for the reason, in substance, that it misquotes the bill of exceptions and contains argumentative matter proper only for a brief. Based also upon this, he further moves to dismiss the appeal.
The practice in such cases is governed by Rule 7 of this court (56 Or. 616,117 Pac. x), which is as follows:
"If the respondent shall deem the appellant's abstract imperfect or unfair, he may, within ten days after receiving a copy thereof, deliver to the appellant's counsel one, and to the clerk of this court, with proof of service upon appellant, sixteen printed copies of such further or additional abstract as he .shall deem necessary to a full understanding of the questions involved in the appeal. "
This rule is controlling in such cases, and if the abstract was unsatisfactory to the plaintiff, his remedy is formulated by the rule.
The motion is denied. Denied.
Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett.
This action was commenced to recover tbe possession of seven cows, two heifers, and four calves, of tbe alleged value of $745. Tbe defendant admits tbe possession of tbe cattle and tbe demand for their custody. Otherwise be denies tbe complaint. He further answers that tbe plaintiff represented to bim that be bad sold tbe property to one Tbienes; that be relied upon tbe statement, and so bought tbe property afterward from Tbienes without any knowledge of plaintiff's reservation of title, and hence tbe latter is es-topped to assert title in the same as be does in this action. Again, tbe defendant states that tbe plaintiff sold tbe property here in contention, with other personalty, to tbe defendant's grantor at one time, in one sale, and as a single transaction, with tbe agreement that tbe title to all tbe chattels should remain in this plaintiff until bis grantee had fully paid for tbe same; that in an action at law subsequently commenced tbe plaintiff here recovered a judgment against bis grantee for $383.75, upon which be issued an execution and levied it upon a large part of tbe personal property included in tbe original transaction between tbe plaintiff and tbe conditional purchaser of tbe same; and that on account of tbe levy tbe plaintiff waived bis reservation of title to all tbe property included in tbe original conditional sale and vested the same in tbe contracting purchaser, from whom tbe defendant bought. Tbe reply denies tbe matter pleaded in es toppel, and admits that the plaintiff sold the personal property described in the complaint with the condition, as stated in the answer, that the title should not pass from the plaintiff until the purchase price was paid; and that, at the time the defendant claims to have bought the property, his grantor, plaintiff's grantee in the transaction, was in default in his contract to purchase the chattels, all of which the defendant well knew. The reply further charges that the purchase of the property alleged by the defendant was without actual consideration and with a fraudulent purpose and intent, known to and participated in by both the defendant and his seller, of placing the property beyond the reach of plaintiff and hindering and delaying him in the collection of his claim against the defendant's grantor. It was conceded that in the original transaction between the plaintiff and his grantee all the property was sold at one time, in one sale, and in one transaction, with the reservation of title as stated. The recovery of the judgment, issue of the execution thereon, and levy upon certain personal property are admitted, but the reply states that the levy did not include the particular property involved in this action. From a judgment on a verdict in favor of the plaintiff after a jury trial, the defendant appeals.