Hanson v. Sommers
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Steele county to have a certain certificate of redemption and mortgage held by one Rice decreed to be a •mortgage and subsequent instruments executed by said Rice to be assignments of said lien; to have a deed from said Rice to defendant William Sommers decreed to be an assignment of the lien with the indebtedness secured thereby and to obtain an accounting and a decree that plaintiff is the owner in fee of certain real estate subject to…
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Action in the district court for Steele county to have a certain certificate of redemption and mortgage held by one Rice decreed to be a •mortgage and subsequent instruments executed by said Rice to be assignments of said lien; to have a deed from said Rice to defendant William Sommers decreed to be an assignment of the lien with the indebtedness secured thereby and to obtain an accounting and a decree that plaintiff is the owner in fee of certain real estate subject to aforesaid lien, if same is not paid. The case was tried before Buckham, J., who made findings and as conclusions of law…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff, claiming an equitable interest in one eighty acres of land and a legal title to another eighty, sought equitable relief against the defendant in possession, inter alia, to decree that the deed under which *436the defendant claimed operated only as an assignment of a lien to secure indebtedness, and to have an accounting and other relief.
The evidence is undoubtedly sufficient to show that for about fourteen years defendant had such possession of the premises as is required to constitute title by prescription. The trial court found that his grantor had been in possession for a much…
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