Baker v. Jamison
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs, James H. Baker, Fannie A. Griffin and Nellie V. Griffin, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, J. D. Ensign, J., made July 13, 1892, sustaining a demurrer to tlieir complaint. The State of Minnesota was on January 26, 1888, entitled to indemnity school land in lieu of deficiencies in the grant.
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Appeal by plaintiffs, James H. Baker, Fannie A. Griffin and Nellie V. Griffin, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, J. D. Ensign, J., made July 13, 1892, sustaining a demurrer to tlieir complaint. The State of Minnesota was on January 26, 1888, entitled to indemnity school land in lieu of deficiencies in the grant. On that day the State selected, among others, twelve forty-acre tracts in sections one (1,) two (2,) four (4,) nine (9,) ten (10,) and eleven (11,) in Township fifty-eight (58) north, of Range eighteen (18) west, in St. Louis County. These selections were…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
- This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. The plaintiffs claim to have acquired á right to leases from the state of certain mineral lands, in accordance with the provisions of Laws 1889, ch: 22. Leases having been executed to the defendant, Jamison, the plaintiffs-seek by this action an adjudication to the effect that their right to-such leases was superior to that of the defendant; that they are in equity entitled to the same; that the defendant be adjudged to hold the leases in trust for the plaintiffs; that a transfer of the same-to the…
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