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Show RECOVERS TITLE TO I $1,000,000 BLOCK PORTLAND, Or.. May 25. Judge . Alfred S. Sears In the State Circuit Cir-cuit court yesterday rendered a decision de-cision restoring to P. A. Mar-quam Mar-quam a block of property in this city valued at $1,000,000. Marquam was the original owner of the property, but became be-came financially embarrassed, and the property was sold at a delinquent tax sale to the Title Guarantee & Trust company. It afterward appeared that the title company had been acting, as the agent of Marquam, but through a second party had purchased the Marquam Mar-quam property In his own right. This action Judge Sears holds to be illegal, il-legal, and the property Is thus restored re-stored to Marquam, the original owner. The decision of Judge Sears exonerates the title company of wilful wrong-doing In the transaction. |