Ham v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Daniel W. Ham, from a judgment of tbe District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., entered June 14, 1893, adjudging that he take nothing by this action and that he pay |39.23 costs.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Daniel W. Ham, from a judgment of tbe District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., entered June 14, 1893, adjudging that he take nothing by this action and that he pay |39.23 costs. On January 3, 1891, Andrew B. Johnson, the defendant, made a written contract with plaintiff to convey to him by warranty deed all of section twenty one (21) in Township 140, Range 45, and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty nine (29) in Township 140, Range 44 in Clay County, and “lot three (3) in block one (1) in Bloom’s Subdivision Addition to…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This action was brought to reform a certain written agreement made by these parties in relation to the exchange of property, so as to correctly express the real contract made by them, and also for a specific performance of the contract as reformed and corrected. The trial court found that, by the terms of the contract as written, the defendant had agreed to convey to plaintiff, by deed of warranty, and upon prompt performance by the latter of his part of the contract, certain described tracts of land in Clay county, and also, subject to a mortgage for $1,700, a certain lot in the city of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Lanz v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1869
- Brown v. MungerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Nippolt v. KammonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
- Pierson v. BallardSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
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