Engen v. Union State Bank

This is primarily a suit to cancel deeds made by Christian Knudson in his lifetime conveying to his two nieces, Anna S. Brown and Bertha M. Megrue and husbands, respectively, eighty-acre tracts in Hamilton county, Nebraska.

The pleadings embrace other issues, however, but the finding of the trial court was such as rendered the validity of the deeds, above referred to, the controlling question.

The undisputed facts -in the record appear to be that Christian Knudson, a son of Norwegian subjects, was born in Norway, January 10, 1845, and marriéd Mari Tollefsen *107Todok, also a subject of Norway, at a…