Sage v. Maxwell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Separate actions in the district court for Swift county by plaintiff, as assignee in trust of the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company, to have the legal title to certain quarter sections of land in possession of defendants adjudged to be held by them in trust for plaintiff, and to determine the adverse claims of defendants thereto. The cases involved the same issues and were tried together before Qvale, J., certain questions being submitted to a jury.
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Separate actions in the district court for Swift county by plaintiff, as assignee in trust of the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company, to have the legal title to certain quarter sections of land in possession of defendants adjudged to be held by them in trust for plaintiff, and to determine the adverse claims of defendants thereto. The cases involved the same issues and were tried together before Qvale, J., certain questions being submitted to a jury. From a judgment in favor of defendants in each case, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
The above-entitled actions were heard and submitted together, the legal questions being practically the same in each. The subject-matter of the first case is the northeast % of section 25, township 122, range 43, and of the second the northwest %. of section 7, township 121, range 42, all in Swift county, this state. Both quarter sections are within the indemnity limits of the federal grant in aid of the construction of the Hastings & Dakota Railway. In each case the defendants claim title to the land by virtue of the patents therefor from the United States. The plaintiff, as assignee of the…
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