Cathcart v. Peck
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The corporate authorities of Le Sueur City, in accordance with Chap. 33 of the Public Statutes, and the act of Congress relating thereto, entered and purchased the lands embraced in the site of said town, in trust for the occupants thereof.
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The corporate authorities of Le Sueur City, in accordance with Chap. 33 of the Public Statutes, and the act of Congress relating thereto, entered and purchased the lands embraced in the site of said town, in trust for the occupants thereof. The plaintiff, claiming to be an occupant of a portion of said lands, and that said corporate authorities had wrongfully deeded to others, portions of the lands occupied by him, and to which he was entitled to a conveyance, brings this action in the District Court for Le Sueur county, against the said corporate authorities, and parties claiming adversely…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Gowrt
"Wilson, Ch. J.
This action was commenced against Kortum K. Peck and Dennis L. Peck, impleaded with the town council of Le Sueur City, and others. Kortum K. and Dennis L. Peck only answered. The plaintiff moved the court to strike out certain portions of the answer as irrelevant and redundant, and also to require certain portions of it to be made more definite and certain, and in default thereof that said portions should be stricken out. The motion was allowed, and the defendants neglecting to make more certain the portions of the answer objected to as uncertain, those portions…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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