Jaspers v. Lano
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This suit was brought in- the district court for Carver county, to determine the boundary line between two tracts of land, o :e of which was owned by each of the parties. The jury before whom the action was tried found a verdict for the plain-I tiff. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was ■ granted, and the plaintiff appeals from the order granting the same to this court.
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This suit was brought in- the district court for Carver county, to determine the boundary line between two tracts of land, o :e of which was owned by each of the parties. The jury before whom the action was tried found a verdict for the plain-I tiff. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was ■ granted, and the plaintiff appeals from the order granting the same to this court. The case, in regard to the questions discussed in the opinion of the court, is fully stated therein.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Ripley, Cii. J.
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The plaintiff owns the east half of the northeast quarter of section thirty-one; the defendant, the northwest quarter of section thirty-two, township one hundred and sixteen, range twenty-three, and they differ in respect to their dividing line; the accompanying diagram shows how; that is to say, the plaintiff contends that the line between said sections is straight, while the defendant insists that by the United States survey it was actually run and marked on the land (2 U. S. Stat. at Large *298p. 313 — 14,) as the dotted line represents it, and the…
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- Finch v. GreenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871
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