Fink v. Woods
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to determine adverse claims to certain vacant and unoccupied land. The case was ' tried before F. V. Brown, J., who ordered judgment in favor of plaintiff. From an order, John Day Smith, J., vacating and setting aside the judgment and permitting Clarence H. Woods and Grace Eaton Woods to appear and defend the action, in place of the unknown heirs •of H. C. Woods, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
Action brought in the district court of the county of Hennepin against H. C. Woods, his unknown heirs, and all other unknown persons or parties claiming any title in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint. The summons was served only by publication, and a default judgment for the relief demanded in the complaint was entered on March 8, 1906. On February 8, 1907, the respondents herein, Clarence H. Woods and Grace Eaton Woods, gave notice of a motion, returnable on the sixteenth of the same month, to set aside the judgment and that they be substituted as defendants for the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Cutler v. ButtonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
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