Conrad v. Douglas
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, W. S. Conrad as administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of George H. Clapp, deceased, from an order of the District Court of Clay County, L. L. Baxter, J., made March 16, 1894, granting a new trial. George H. Clapp of Devils Lake, N. Dak., owned the east one hundred and twenty five feet of lots four, five and six in block forty six in the original townsite of Moorhead with livery barn thereon.
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Appeal by plaintiff, W. S. Conrad as administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of George H. Clapp, deceased, from an order of the District Court of Clay County, L. L. Baxter, J., made March 16, 1894, granting a new trial. George H. Clapp of Devils Lake, N. Dak., owned the east one hundred and twenty five feet of lots four, five and six in block forty six in the original townsite of Moorhead with livery barn thereon. He conveyed this property March 15, 1888, to defendant Wallace B, Douglas by ordinary warranty deed. Ho trust or condition was expressed therein. It was made without…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The controlling facts in this case are that on March 15, 1888, one Clapp, who resided in Devil’s Lake, N. Dak., was the *502owner of the property herein involved, situated in Moorhead, Minn. The defendant, Douglas, and the intervener, Mrs. Bell, resided in the place last named. On that day Clapp executed a deed of conveyance of this property to Douglas, and mailed the same to him at Moor-head. This deed was absolute in form but was without consideration. Clapp’s purpose, as understood by Douglas, gathered from conversations between them, as we suppose, was that the latter should collect the rents…
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