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Child v. Morgan

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided October 5, 1892PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal by plaintiff, E. A. Child, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Pond, J., entered March 7, 1892, dismissing the action and for $15.78 costs.

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Appeal by plaintiff, E. A. Child, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Pond, J., entered March 7, 1892, dismissing the action and for $15.78 costs. This action was brought by the plaintiff, E. A. Child, against the defendants, Wesley J. Morgan, John Maureau, Henry Paulson, Martin M. Pulver, Edward F. Pulver, and others, to determine adverse claims under the statute to lots twenty-three (23) and twenty-four, (24,) block fifteen, (15,) in Motor Line Addition to Minneapolis. Plaintiff was in possession of the property, and claimed the legal title under the foreclosure of the…

1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.

The principal question to be decided is as to the validity of an attempted statutory foreclosure of a mortgage, through which the plaintiff claims to have acquired title to the land in controversy, which consists of lots twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24) in block (15) in Motor Line addition to Minneapolis. Little, who owned the land in 1886, executed the mortgage to Hill, embracing as the premises mortgaged these two lots, with a third lot, numbered twenty-two (22.) The mortgage was in the usual form of such instruments, save as to the terms of the condition of defeasance. This condition…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Nash v. HuntMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
  2. Hull v. KingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
  3. Barber v. EvansSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
  4. Auld v. SmithSupreme Court of Kansas · 1879
  5. Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. PalmerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1893

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. G. Amsinck & Co. v. Springfield Grocer Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1925
  2. Wilson v. HubbardWashington Supreme Court · 1905
  3. State Ex Rel. Buchanan v. State TreasurerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1904
  4. Minnesota Debenture Co. v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
  5. State v. Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1917

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