Legal Opinion

Malmgren v. Phinney

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided July 14, 1892PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal by defendants Charles J. Berryhill, Charles Davison, Charles Huntsaker, William C. Resser and Charles F. Konantz, from a judgment of the District Court, Ramsey County, Kelly, J., entered February 26, 1893. The plaintiff Emil Malmgren and others, partners as Malmgren & Hokanson, on October 30, 1890, and on other days between that day and December 1, 1890, under a contract with the defendant Albert S. Phinney, furnished materials and performed work and labor in the…

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Appeal by defendants Charles J. Berryhill, Charles Davison, Charles Huntsaker, William C. Resser and Charles F. Konantz, from a judgment of the District Court, Ramsey County, Kelly, J., entered February 26, 1893. The plaintiff Emil Malmgren and others, partners as Malmgren & Hokanson, on October 30, 1890, and on other days between that day and December 1, 1890, under a contract with the defendant Albert S. Phinney, furnished materials and performed work and labor in the construction of a stone foundation for a barn on lot six (6) in block three (3) of Nininger & Donnelly’s Addition to…

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.

April 3, 1890, defendants Berryhill and Davison, being the owners of a certain lot in St. Paul, (one hundred and sixty-four [164] feet in length from north to south,) contracted to sell it *461to one Wick for $2,500, of which $1,500 was to be paid in cash on delivery of the deed, and the remaining $1,000 to be secured by mortgage on the lot.

This contract also provided “that, if Wick shall erect, or cause to be erected, a dwelling house on said lot, he may incumber said lot by a mortgage in an amount not exceeding $3,000, which said mortgage said Berryhill and Davison agree may be superior and…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Savings and Loan Society v. ThompsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1867
  2. Miller v. . MeadNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
  3. Sewall v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1874
  4. Reilly v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
  5. Steinmetz v. St. Paul Trust Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Putnam v. HolmSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1927
  2. Basham v. Goodholm & Sparrow Inv. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1915
  3. Grise v. WhiteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
  4. Matter of Cliff's Ridge Skiing Corp.United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Michigan · 1991
  5. State v. DuncanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1907

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