Newgard v. Freeland

Holt, Justice.

Action of unlawful detainer begun in the municipal court of Owatonna. Judgment for plaintiff awarding him the immediate possession of a farm, from which defendant appealed to the district court of Steele county. An amended answer was served, and at the conclusion of the trial the court, upon plaintiff’s motion, directed the jury to return a verdict for plaintiff. Defendant appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

It appears that until sometime in 1933 the farm in question was owned by defendant subject to a first mortgage in the sum of $6,000 to the Bankers Farm…