Case Name: KIEFFER v. VICTOR LAND CO.
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1908-12-29
Citations: 53 Or. 174
Docket Number: 
Parties: KIEFFER v. VICTOR LAND CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 53
Pages: 174–178

Head Matter:
On the merits argued December 3,
decided December 29, 1908,
rehearing denied February 9, 1909.
KIEFFER v. VICTOR LAND CO.
[90 Pac. 582; 98 Pac. 877.]
Appeal — Failure to Send Up Testimony — Dismissal.
1. A failure to send up all the testimony In an equity suit is not ground for the dismissal of an appeal.
Process — Service—Publication—Order—Sufficiency.
2. An order for publication of summons, stating that defendant “is without the State of Oregon and is now a resident of this State, and has been absent therefrom for more than six weeks prior to the commencement of the suit,” was not materially defective for stating that defendant was then a, resident; it being clearly a clerical mistake, and the order further reciting that defendant’s address was Dawson Oity, in Yukon Territory.
Quieting Title — Proceedings—Process—Service by Publication.
S. Under Section 516, B. & O. Oomp., permitting one claiming an interest in land and not in actual possession thereof to bring a suit in equity against any claimant of an adverse interest to determine such conflicting interest, and Section 400, authorizing service of summons by publication upon a nonresident defendant in such suit, such service is sufficient to give the State courts jurisdiction to remove clouds from title to land within the State, or to quiet title thereto.
Mortgages — Lien—Title of Mortgagor — Notice of Defects.
4. A mortgagee of land, without notice of any latent infirmity in the decree under which the mortgagor claimed title, had a valid and enforceable lien thereon.
Municipal Corporations — Public Improvements — Enforcement of Assessments — Setting Aside Sale — Rights of Purchasers — Refund of Assessment and Taxes.
5. In a suit to set aside proceedings under which plaintiff’s property was sold to satisfy a special assessment against it, and proceedings by which title was quieted in the purchaser thereof, upon setting aside the proceedings, plaintiff must return the amount of the assessment paid by the purchaser and taxes paid by the various purchasers since its sale.
From Multnomah: MELVIN C. GEORGE, Judge.
This is a suit by John J. Kieffer against the Victor Land Co., a corporation, A. L. Helman and Odile F. Collins, to set aside a deed executed by the chief of police of the City of Portland to certain property in said city, sold under a warrant issued for the collection of a delinquent sewer assessment.
From a decree in part for plaintiff he appeals.
Affirmed.
Decided January 18, 1907.
On Motion to Dismiss.
[90 Pac. 582.3
Mr. Frank Schlegel for the motion.
Mr. William M. LaForce, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam :
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal as a suit in equity, on the grounds: (1) That the printed abstract does not contain an index or assignment of errors; and (2) that the transcript of the evidence does not include all the testimony given in the court below. The omission- of an index and an assignment of errors in the abstract was due to an oversight, and a sufficient showing has been made to justify the court in allowing the abstract to be amended in that regard.
A failure to send up all the testimony in an equity suit is no ground for the dismissal of an appeal. The pleadings and findings of fact may present questions for review in this court.
The motion to dismiss will therefore be overruled, and any defect in the testimony can be urged upon the final hearing, if the appellant seeks to have reviewed the findings made by the trial court.
Motion Overruled.