Glidden Co. v. Twin City Hardwood Lumber Co.

While this action was brought to recover possession of a strip of land 7.6 feet wide at the southerly end and tapering to a point 216 feet to the north, with damages for its detention, yet the real controversy is over the ownership thereof. The plaintiff obtained title from the Twin City Varnish Company in April, 1920, which acquired title thereto from the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company in August, 1905, to that portion of outlot 140, abutting on the west side of Cleveland avenue in the city of St. Paul described as follows: Commencing at the northeasterly corner of said lot, running…