Court Opinion

ID: 9537752
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:22:30.042042+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:56.788534
License: Public Domain

ON THE MERITS
PER CURIAM.
This is a snit to declare a resulting trust in certain real property located in the city of Portland, Multnomah county, Oregon, brought by D. S. Peterson and Helyn F. Peterson, his wife, as plaintiffs, against Gordon Peterson and Evangeline Peterson, his wife, as defendants. The trial court entered a decree in favor of defendants dismissing plaintiffs’ suit. Plaintiffs appeal.
*140Plaintiff D. S. Peterson and defendant Gordon Peterson are brothers. Plaintiffs claim that D. S. Peterson advanced and paid the required down-payment upon the purchase price of a house and lot located in the city of Portland, but for convenience and personal reasons title thereto was taken in the name of Gordon Peterson, and that defendant Gordon Peterson and his wife were permitted to occupy the premises so long as they paid the mortgage debt installments accruing upon the balance of the purchase price. Later defendants moved from the premises and plaintiffs moved in. Some eight years later, upon defendants’ demand for possession of the property, plaintiffs brought this suit. By their answer, defendants alleged ownership of the property in themselves, and on the trial claimed that they had repaid D. S. Peterson for all advances of money he had made upon the original purchase thereof.
The learned trial judge found that no substantial evidence was presented to support the claims of plaintiffs and, therefore, dismissed plaintiffs’ suit. No questions of law are involved. The issue was and is simply one of fact. We find no reason for disturbing the conclusions of the trial court. This appeal is without merit. Hunter v. Hunter, 207 Or 219, 295 P2d 195, 196; Nelson v. Hampton, 206 Or 573, 294 P2d 329, 333; Neppach v. Norval, 116 Or 593, 240 P 883, 242 P 605; Chance v. Graham, 76 Or 199, 148 P 63.
Decree affirmed. Defendants to recover costs.