Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Jacobson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover possession of land. Defendant Cornelia Jacobson answered, claiming title under one John Kelly. The court, Lancaster, J., directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, said defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This is an action to recover possession of
“The south thirty-one feet of the north one-half of lots six and seven in block one hundred and eighty seven of the town of Minneapolis, according to the plat of said town,” etc.
The plaintiff deraigned its title from two sources, viz., a sale under a mortgage executed by one Kelly, then the owner of the property, and, second, a sale under a tax judgment. Inasmuch as the court directed a verdict for the plaintiff on the tax title without going into the merits of the alleged title under the mortgage, it only becomes necessary to consider the former;…
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