Jentzen v. Pruter
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Jackson county to have plaintiffs declared the owners in fee of certain land; to have the interest of William Jentzen, arising through purchase at foreclosure sale, declared a mortgage; to have the mortgage debt computed and permit plaintiffs to redeem the premises therefrom.
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Action in the district court for Jackson county to have plaintiffs declared the owners in fee of certain land; to have the interest of William Jentzen, arising through purchase at foreclosure sale, declared a mortgage; to have the mortgage debt computed and permit plaintiffs to redeem the premises therefrom. The answer prayed to have the title to the lands quieted and that the widow be adjudged to be the owner of an undivided one-third interest therein, subject to the administration of the estate of said William. The case was tried before Dean, J., who made findings of fact as set forth in…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
1. On June 11, 1888, Henry Sehuette owned a quarter section of land in Jackson county and on that date mortgaged it for $500. Later in the same year Mr. Sehuette died, leaving his wife, Mary, and six children. Probate proceedings were commenced, but no final decree entered. In 1890 Mary married William Jentzen, a farmer of Car*10roll county, Iowa, a widower with, six children. In 1897, Jentzen took an assignment of the $500 mortgage and in July, 1900, foreclosed it and himself bid in the land for $670.50, the amount due on the mortgage. The land was then worth about $4,000.
In June, 1915, Jentzen…
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