Corson v. Shoemaker
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, Reginald H. Shoemaker and Amelia D. his wife, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Thomas Canty, J., entered May 22, 1893. On March 23, 1874, the defendant Reginald H. Shoemaker and Eliza Fanny Shoemaker then his wife, sold to the plaintiff, Henry D. Corson, seventeen and a half acres of land in the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section thirty four (34) T. 29, R. 24, in Minneapolis for $9,000 and received pay…
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Appeal by defendants, Reginald H. Shoemaker and Amelia D. his wife, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Thomas Canty, J., entered May 22, 1893. On March 23, 1874, the defendant Reginald H. Shoemaker and Eliza Fanny Shoemaker then his wife, sold to the plaintiff, Henry D. Corson, seventeen and a half acres of land in the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section thirty four (34) T. 29, R. 24, in Minneapolis for $9,000 and received pay therefor. By mistake a part of the land, about eight feet wide and forty rods long-on the south side was not embraced in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBuce, J.
This is an action to reform the description of real property in a deed, and the record thereof, with the usual prayer for general relief. It is alleged in the complaint that about the 23d day of March, 1874, Eliza Fanny Shoemaker was the owner in fee simple-of certain real property situated in the county of Hennepin, in this-state, and that about that date she and her husband, Reginald H.. Shoemaker, one of these defendants, for the consideration of $9,000,. sold said property, and that the Shoemakers intended to execute a warranty deed thereof to plaintiff, but by the mutual mistake of…
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