Ernst v. Schmidt
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Adams county, Holcomb, J., entered April 4, 1911, upon findings in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action to recover the value of improvements placed upon defendants’ land, after a trial before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The plaintiff Jacob Ernst is the son-in-law of the defendants, and Hattie Ernst is their daughter. In December, 1908, the defendants owned a section of land in Grant county. This land was at that time encumbered by a mortgage of $4,000. They desired to give the land to their children, eighty acres to each of the daughters. With that object in view, they agreed with the plaintiffs that, if plaintiffs would occupy and improve a certain eighty-acre tract for a period of four years, at the expiration of that time the defendants would deed the land to the plaintiffs free from the mortgage. The…
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