Ames v. Lowry
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover possession of “lot 6 in block 128, of the town, now city, of Minneapolis, according to the plat thereof now on file and of record in the office of the register of deeds within and for said county of Hennepin.”
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Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover possession of “lot 6 in block 128, of the town, now city, of Minneapolis, according to the plat thereof now on file and of record in the office of the register of deeds within and for said county of Hennepin.” A jury was waived and the action tried by Vander-burgh, J., who found the facts in substance as follows: On April 23, 1855, one D. M. Hanson (the common source of title) pre-empted and purchased of the United States the E. \ of the N. E. J of section 26, town 24, range 29, in which the premises in dispute…
1Opinion of the Court
Gilfillan, C. J.*
Ejectment for lot 6, block 128, of the town (now city) of Minneapolis. One Hanson, in June, 1855, was the owner of 80 acres, according to the governmental subdivision, which included the land in controversy, and executed to Carlos Wilcox a deed, duly recorded May 27, 1856, conveying land described as “all those tracts or parcels of land lying a-nd being in Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, described as follows, to wit: lots Nos. six (6) and seven, (7,)'in block No. sixty-nine, (69,) of Hanson’s addition to Minneapolis; said block being the sixth (6th) from the quarter-section…
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