Norgren v. Edson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, Rufus P. Edson et al., from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, Stearns, J., denying their motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
Upon a judgment against Carl Norgren, one of the plaintiffs, alleged to have been paid, the defendants caused an execution to issue, and real estate of the plaintiffs to be levied on and sold thereunder, and themselves became the purchasers.
The action is not to remove the cloud on the title created by the sale," but to recover the value of the land as though the' sale, in and of itself, divested the plaintiffs! title, and was equivalent to the conversion of the real estate to the defendants’ use. It does not enter into the theory of the action as brought by plaintiffs that, by reason *568of the…
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