Crookston Improvement Co. v. Marshall
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, Annie L. Marshall, L. I). Marshall her husband, Maria Munch, William Munch, her husband, Emma E. Kelsey and W. E. Kelsey, her husband, from an order of the District Court of Polk County, Frank Ives, J., made January 13, 1894, refusing their motion for a new trial. In the United States survey of the public lands where Crookston is nowr situated the elbows of the Ked Lake Elver broke up into lots the ordinary government subdivisions.
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Appeal by defendants, Annie L. Marshall, L. I). Marshall her husband, Maria Munch, William Munch, her husband, Emma E. Kelsey and W. E. Kelsey, her husband, from an order of the District Court of Polk County, Frank Ives, J., made January 13, 1894, refusing their motion for a new trial. In the United States survey of the public lands where Crookston is nowr situated the elbows of the Ked Lake Elver broke up into lots the ordinary government subdivisions. Lots six (6) and seven (7) in Section 25, T. 150, E. 47, and Lot four (4) in Section 30, T. 150, B. 46, comprised a portion of the west bank…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The only question in this case is whether the evidence justified the decision of the trial court that plaintiff was entitled to a reformation of its deed to defendants, having in mind the rule that to entitle a party to such relief the proofs must be clear, satisfactory, and convincing, — that a mere preponderance of evidence will not suffice.
One Bjornstad (plaintiff’s grantor) .owned government lots 6 and 7 in section 25, and lot 4 in section 30, lot 4 lying immediately east of lots 6 and 7. He platted Sampson’s Woodland addition to Crookston as on lots 6 and 7, the east line of the addition…
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