Simmonsen v. Curtis

This is an action commenced, tried, and determined in the municipal court of St. Paul, in replevin, to recover possession of a deed conveying real estate,’brought by the grantee named in it against the defendants, who claim to have held it as agents of the grantor. They claiming to hold it not in their own right, but in the right of their principal, the action is not materially different from what it would have been had it been brought against the grantor himself. The municipal court has no jurisdiction to try actions in which the title to real estate is involved, but whenever it appears in…