Jorgenson v. Larson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Watonwan county against defendant as administrator of the estate of K. O. Jorgenson, deceased, to recover the value of the widow’s third of a tract of land which plaintiff had purchased from defendant in his lifetime under an executory contract, which interest his widow refused to convey. The case was tried before Cray, J., who found in favor of defendant. From an order denying a motion for a new. tria.1, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
The facts in this case, as found by the' trial court, are substantially these: In the year 1885, K. O. Jorgenson was the owner of eighty acres of land in the county of Watonwan, this state, and then entered into a contract with the plaintiff for the sale of the land to him for the sum of $500, to be paid in instalments. Jorgenson was then a married man, which fact the plaintiff then *135knew; but the wife was not a party to such contract. The plaintiff paid the full purchase price for the land to Jorgenson in his lifetime, but the latter died intestate August 28, 1898, without having-conveyed the…
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