Legal Opinion

Hovelsrud v. Hovelsrud

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided October 13, 1911No. Nos. 17,304, 17,305—(179, 180)Published

Action to determine adverse claims to certain real property in Jackson county, tried in tbe district court for Ramsey county. The case was tried before Orr, J., who ordered judgment decreeing defendants to be the owners .of the land. Erom an order denying their motion to strike the demand for a second trial from, the files, Ole Hovelsrud and nine other nonanswering defendants, appealed.

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Action to determine adverse claims to certain real property in Jackson county, tried in tbe district court for Ramsey county. The case was tried before Orr, J., who ordered judgment decreeing defendants to be the owners .of the land. Erom an order denying their motion to strike the demand for a second trial from, the files, Ole Hovelsrud and nine other nonanswering defendants, appealed. From an order, denying their motion to strike from the judgment the following paragraph: “It is further adjudged and decreed that said defendants'are entitled to the immediate possession of said real estate…

1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.

Action to determine adverse claims to real property. Defendants Hans Hovelsrud, Louisa Logerson, and Dina Gilstad appeared and served an answer, in which they denied plaintiff’s alleged ownership of the property, pleaded title in themselves, and demanded judgment that they were such owners, and that they be awarded possession of the property. Defendant Lewis Gilstad answered, setting up that he was the administrator of the estate of John H. Hovelsrud, who in his lifetime was the owner of the land, and that the same belonged to and was the property of the heirs of his intestate, the several…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Godfrey v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
  2. McLaughlin v. NicholsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
  3. Mealey v. FinneganSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
  4. Huntsman v. HendricksSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
  5. Borman v. BakerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897

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