Schmidt v. Schmidt

NEUMANN, Justice.

[¶ 1] Gerald Schmidt appealed from a district court judgment evicting him from farmland in Odelia Schmidt’s estate. We affirm.

[¶2] The relevant facts underlying this eviction action are not in dispute. In 1978 Wilson and Odelia Schmidt sold their family farm to their son, Gerald, on a contract for deed. Wilson died in 1980 and Odelia died in 1990. Odelia’s estate brought an action to cancel the contract for deed, because Gerald had not made annual payments for many years. The district court entered a judgment canceling the contract for deed and ordering the property sold at a…