, ,TILTON, V ,BARRELL.
and in tbiscourt also, that a location may not be made by a discovery shaft upon another claim which has been previously located, and which is a valid location, but that doctrine has nothing to do with the point in controversy here. For all that appears, the Winnemucca may have been the better location, and it may have been sold by tlJo Little Pittsburgh parties, or disposed of in some way. 'The mere faet that a part of it was transferred to the Little Pittsburgh parties is not which .enough to defeat the right of the locators to other were not sold, disposed of, or surrendered. The demuner to the answer will be sustained.
TILTO}!
V. BARRELL
and another. June 26, 1883,)
(Olrcuit Court. D. Oregon. 1. REB
The decrec of a competent court in a suit to enforce the right of tIle grantee against the grantors in an instrument admitted by hoth the plaintiff and defendants to have beeu intended to operate as a mortgage, determines the rights of the parties thereto and thereun(!er, so that either they or their privies, as against each other, are estopped to sayar allege aught to the contrary. FINAL DECREE-::IloDIFICATION OF.
.JUDICATA.
2.
During the term the court may modify, supplement, or supersede II final decree in any case: and while it is more orderly and convenient to state in the second decree how far or in what respect it is intended to affect the first one, still this is not actually necessary; and it will be presumed that in giving the second decree the court intended to modify the first one, in so far as they differ, unless the circumstances plainly indicate the contrary. DECHEE AND EXECUTION TIIEHEO::-r.
3.
An execution directing the sale of mortgaged premises to satisfy the debt of the mortgagee must be based upon a decree which is sufficiently indicated therein: but, although there is a variance hetween the latter and the former as to the date of the decree, the execution and sale thereon is valid, in favor of any person claiming thereunder, if it plainly appears to the court, upon a view of all the facts, that the execution was in. fact issued upon the decree in question, and for its enforcement. Two SnuLAR DECREES m
i.
Two decrees, purporting to be final, were given in L. v. n., within three days of each other, directing the sale of mortgagell premises, and differing only in the mode of descrilJing the same,-the first one describing them by parcels, and the second one by the same parcels, and as a whole. Held, that said decrees were,' in legal effect anll operation, identical, and an execution might properly issue upon either of them.
A CASE.
Action to Recover Possession of Real Property. Motion for a new trial. . },L TV. Fechheimer, for plaintiff. W. W. Chapman, for defendants. Before FIELD and DEADY, JJ. DEADY, J. On i882, Charles E.Tilton, a citizen of ,New York, brought this action against CollJUrn Barrell and his wife.
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FEDERAL REPORTEn.
Aurelia Jane, citizens of Oregon,to recover the possession of a of land situated in MuItnomah county, containing 13t acres, and alleged to be worth $13,000. Aurelia Jane demurred to the complaint, and on December 27, 1882, the demurrer was overruled. 14 FED. REP. 609. The defendants afterwards answered separately, and to the new matter contained in these answers the plaintiff replied. From pleadings it appears that the plaintiff purchased the premises from William S. Ladd, a citizen of Oregon, who purchased them at a sheriff's sale upon a decree against the defendants foreclosing a mortgage thereon, executed by them to said Ladd, and upon them the following issueR arise' (1) As to the ownership and right to the possession of the premises,-tl18 plaintiff alleging that he is the owner of the same, and entitled to the possession thereof, while the defendants deny such ownership, and allege respectively that Aurelia Jane is the owner of 11 acres of the pn'lmises, and Colburn is the owner of the remaining 211- acres, and entitled to the possession thereof. (2) As to legal eJIect of the conveyance of the premises to William S. Ladd by the defendants on January 17, 1877,-the defendants alleging that the same was intended as a mortgage to secure the payment of $o,850 then due from said Colburn to Ladtl in two years, with interest at 1 per cent. per month, and that Ladd agreed to give thl3 defendants a writing to that effect, which promise, so far as Aurelia Jane is concerned, he did not. keep, but on March 22, 1877, executell a writing to salll Colbnrn whereby he agreell to sell the. whole of said premises to him; while the plaintiff alleges that he gave said Colhurn, for himself and as agent of his wife, on said date, a writing by which he agreed that if the sum dne him was paid on or before March 7, 1878, but, not afterwards, he would release and quitclaim the premises to said Colburn or his assigns. (3) As to whether the defendants are not estopped to allege any act concerning the execution of the conveyance of January 17,1877, and the understanding or conduct of the parties about or concerning it,-the plaintiff alleging that on Decemher 4, 1879, said Ladd brought a snit in the proper state circuit court, against the defendants, for the purpose of haVing said conveyance of January 17, 1877,declared a mortgage,and foreclosed accordingly; that the defendants were summoned, appeared and answered the complaint in said suit, and that on March 22, 1830, said court made a final decree therein, declaring' said conveyance to be a mortgage; that the defendants had broken the condition thereof, and that the premises be sold as therein directed; that on March 23d an order of sale issued uut of said court to the sheriff, reqniring him to sell the premises as upon an executIon, upon which the same were duly sold to William S. Ladd on April 24, 1880, wlto afterwards, on August 25, 1880, and after the confil'l1lation of said sale by said court, duly conveyed the premises to the plaintiff. And (4) as to whether the conveyance by I_add to the plaintiff was collusive or not,-the defendants alleging that it was made without consideration, and for the purpose of enabling said Ladd to maintain an action in this conrt for the possession of the property in the name of the plaintiff, and upon the understanding that the same, or the proceeds thereof, should be returned to him i-all of which the plaintiff denies, ,
The cause was tried by the district judge, with a jury, and the de. fendants admitting that the issue as to the collusive character of the conveyance to Ladd ought, upon the evidence, to be found against them, under the direction of the judge a verdict was found for the plaintiff. The defendants moved for a new trial, and the motion was
'rIL'l'UN V. BAURELL.
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heard on June 26th, The grounds of the motion for a new trial are error of the court in the admission of the evidence and instruction to the jury. In the course of the trial the plainbiI offered in evidence a transcript· of the proceedings in the state court in the case of Ladd v.Bar1'ell et ux" to which the defendants objected for various reasons, only one of which is pressed on the motion for new trial. In this transcript there are two final decrees-the one given on March 19th and the other the 22d; and while the latter is pleaded in the replications as an estoppel, the execution appears to refer by date to the former. And, first, the rights of the parties to this conveyance or mortgage of January 17, 1877, and the writing of March 22, 1877, were directly involved and determined in the suit of Ladd v. Barrell et t/.x., in the state court, and are now res judicata. The defendants had their day in that cOl1rt, and by their answer substantially admitted the claim of the plaintiff therein, and cannot now be heard to allege aught to the contrary of the determination based thereon. But counsel for the defendants contend that 8S there is nothing in the transcript from which it expressly appears that the state court intended to vacate or modify the first decree, the second one is a nullity, and does not support the estoppel set up in the replications; while, if such decree is valid, then the sale and conveyance to Ladd in pursuance of the first decree is void and of no effect. But if the order of this argument is reversed, as it well may be, the conclusion reached supports the allegation of title or ownership in the plaintiff, and disproves the plea of title in the defendants, whatever may be the effect on tile estoppel. Admit, if you please, that the second decree is void, as being made after the court had exhausted its power and jurisdiction over the subject, then the first decree is valid, and the sale and conveyance to Ladd in pursuance of it is valid. But we do not see any reason to think this second decree invalid. It was given at the same term as the first, and winje the proceeding was still in the breast of the court, and subject, in this respect, to its control and power. True, it would have been more orderly and convenient, in making the second decree, to have referred to thA first one, and stated in what particular the latter was intended to modify, supplement, or supersede the former. But such a statemem' was not absolutely necessary. On the contrary, it is to be presumed that a second decree made within the term is intended to modify a former one just so far as it differs from it, either in breadth or !ength. Any other conclusion, unless under circumstances plainly Indicating mistake or misapprehensIOn, would be contrary to reason and common sense. Nor is the objection that the sale appears to been made on an execution issued on a decree of March 1Uth, of the 22d, valid in this action. The process upon wbich sale was made consists of a copy of the decree, followed by a wrii lD the nature of a venditione exponas, issued and signed by the clelk,