Boyd v. Mendenhall
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Charles C. Boyd, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, O. P. Stearns, J., made August 13, 1892, denying his motion for a new trial. On July 9,1891, the Motor Line Improvement Company, a corporation, owned section thirty-six (36), T. 51, R. 14, in Duluth. Guilford G. Hartley was president, and Luther Mendenhall and his business partner Hoopes, were general managers of the business of this corporation.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Charles C. Boyd, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, O. P. Stearns, J., made August 13, 1892, denying his motion for a new trial. On July 9,1891, the Motor Line Improvement Company, a corporation, owned section thirty-six (36), T. 51, R. 14, in Duluth. Guilford G. Hartley was president, and Luther Mendenhall and his business partner Hoopes, were general managers of the business of this corporation. On that day plaintiff and his partner Wilbur purchased of the corporation and paid it for the cedar timber on the east one-fourth of the section, with the…
1Opinion of the Court
Gilfillan, O. J.
Action for malicious prosecution. At the trial the action was withdrawn as to the Motor Line Improvement ■Company, originally a defendant, and the trial proceeded as to the defendants Mendenhall and Hartley, and after the evidence was all in the court dismissed the action as to them. The facts necessary to consider are brief. The Motor Line Improvement Company, a corporation doing business in Duluth, owned a section of land (36) lying within the corporate limits of that city, on which there was standing timber, including some cedar. Hartley was the president of the company and…
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