Van Rhee v. Dysert

The appeal is from an order vacating a judgment for want of jurisdiction over the respondent, Thomas Dysert.

Stephen Dysert, the father of respondent, died intestate in 1896 owning 80 acres of land in Mille Lacs county, this state. The estate was probated and an undivided one-fifth decreed to respondent. In the year 1899, after three of the children conveyed interests in the land to M. M. Ring, all the heirs of Stephen Dysert disappeared from Mille Lacs county. In May, 1899, plaintiff bid in the land at a forfeited real estate tax judgment sale and immediately went into possession, cultivated…