Dixon v. Merritt
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Complaint, in the usual form, under the statute for determining adverse claims to real property. Gen. Stat., ch. 75. Answer, that on August 22, 1860, defendants became •owners in fee of the real estate described in the complaint, and continued such owners until November 4, 1870, when they conveyed with warranty to one Kent; concluding with a prayer that plaintiff be decreed to have no interest in said real estate.
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Complaint, in the usual form, under the statute for determining adverse claims to real property. Gen. Stat., ch. 75. Answer, that on August 22, 1860, defendants became •owners in fee of the real estate described in the complaint, and continued such owners until November 4, 1870, when they conveyed with warranty to one Kent; concluding with a prayer that plaintiff be decreed to have no interest in said real estate. Trial in the district court for Dakota county, before Crosby, J., (a jury being waived,) who found the following facts: On September 13, 1855, one Anna E. Agnew was the owner in fee…
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
The mortgage involved in this action was made September 13, 1855, by Anna E. Agnew, owner in fee simple of the premises mortgaged, and an infant feme covert, and Edward C. Agnew, her husband. The statute then in force, Bev. Stat., ch. 46, § 2, provided that “ a husband and wife may, by their joint deed, convey the real estate of the wife, in like manner as she might do by her separate deed, if she were unmarried.” If the wife was an infant, this statute gave to the joint deed of her and her husband the same effect, as a conveyance of her real estate, as was given *200to a deed executed by her as…
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