Case Name: ALLEN v. ANGUS
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1913-07-22
Citations: 69 Or. 494
Docket Number: 
Parties: ALLEN v. ANGUS.
Judges: Mr. Justice Bean, Mr. Justice Ramsey and Mr. Justice McNary concur. Mr. Chief Justice McBride not sitting.
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 494–501

Head Matter:
Motion to dismiss appeal submitted July 12,
decided July 22, 1913.
Argued January 23, decided February 17, 1914. Rehearing denied March 17, 1914.
ALLEN v. ANGUS.
(133 Pac. 1190; 138 Pac. 1074; 139 Pac. 721.)
Appeal and Error — Transcript—Filing—Statutes.
1. Defendants, desiring to appeal from an adverse decree of the Circuit Court of Hood River County, counsel caused notice of appeal to be served, and filed the same March 31, 1913. Eight days thereafter an undertaking on appeal was served and filed, and the transcript was filed in the Supreme Court at Salem, May 15th following. Held, that it was not necessary that an authenticated copy of the reeord should have been forwarded to Pendleton on or before May 5, 1913, at which time and place the next term of the Supreme Court convened after the appeal was perfected.
Specific Performance — Contracts Enforceable — Conditional Contract.
2. Where a contract for the exchange of lands provided that it should be void at the option of plaintiffs, unless a pending suit to foreclose a mortgage on one of defendants’ tracts should be settled by July 15, 1912, and on July 12th, when nothing had been done toward an adjustment, defendants notified plaintiffs that they would not proceed further with the contract, and on July 13th the money was paid on settlement of the suit, but the motion to dismiss was not filed till July 15th, and not granted till August 5th, the plaintiffs cannot enforce the contract.
[As to certainty in the contract as a requisite for specific performance, see note in 26 Am. Dee. 661. As to specific performance of options, see note in 118 Am. St. Rep. 592.]
From Hood River: William L. Bradshaw, Judge.
Decided July 22, 1913.
On Motion to Dismiss.
(133 Pac. 1190.)
This is a suit by Mary Coburu Allen and Wilbur B. Allen against F. W. Angus and Grace E. Angus for the specific performance of a contract. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Respondents file motion to dismiss appeal.
Motion Denied.
Mr. Ernest C. Smith, for the motion.
Mr. George B. Wilbur, contra.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Moore
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal. A decree in this suit was rendered by the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Hood River County. Desiring to secure a review of such determination, the defendants ' counsel caused to be served a notice of appeal, and filed the same March 31, 1913. Eight days thereafter there was served and filed an undertaking on appeal, and no exceptions were taken to the sufficiency of the sureties thereon. The transcript on appeal was filed in this court at Salem, May 15, 1913, and it is insisted that the authenticated copy of the record of the cause should have been forwarded to Pendleton on or before May 5, 1913, at which time the next term of this court convened, after the appeal was perfected.
The question here presented was considered and determined adversely to the contention of plaintiffs' counsel in the case of Pringle Falls Electric Power & Water Co. v. Patterson, 65 Or. 474 (128 Pac. 820), and the conclusion thus reached is controlling herein.
It follows that the motion should be denied, and it is so ordered. Motion to Dismiss Appeal Denied.