Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad v. Singer
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, the Sioux City & St. Paul Eailroad Company, from a judgment of the District Court of Nobles County, Severance and Brown, JJ., entered August 20,1891. - Plaintiff brought this action against Lawrence Singer and Jacob Harder to recover possession of a lot fronting on Tenth street in the Village of Worthington, Nobles County, Minn. The defendants answered denying that plaintiff had any title to the lot.
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Appeal by plaintiff, the Sioux City & St. Paul Eailroad Company, from a judgment of the District Court of Nobles County, Severance and Brown, JJ., entered August 20,1891. - Plaintiff brought this action against Lawrence Singer and Jacob Harder to recover possession of a lot fronting on Tenth street in the Village of Worthington, Nobles County, Minn. The defendants answered denying that plaintiff had any title to the lot. A jury was waived, and the issues tried before Hon. M. J. Severance, Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, and Hon. P. E. Brown, Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District,…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
This is an action of ejectment. The facts of the case are as follows:
The premises consist of parts of two lots in the village of Worth-ington. In 1872 the plaintiff, then the owner of the land, conveyed it by deed, which was then recorded, and which embraced this condition: “This conveyance is made and accepted on the express condition that intoxicating liquors shall never be sold or vended, as a beverage, to be drunk on the premises, and, if the same is so done, habitually, with the knowledge and consent of the owner, this instrument shall be void.” Through several intermediate conveyances…
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