Lindell v. Lindell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in ejectment in the district court for Goodhue county and to recover $500 damages for withholding possession of the premises. The answer set up the facts in relation to her husband, Sidney E. Lindel!, stated in the first paragraph of the opinion.
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Action in ejectment in the district court for Goodhue county and to recover $500 damages for withholding possession of the premises. The answer set up the facts in relation to her husband, Sidney E. Lindel!, stated in the first paragraph of the opinion. The ease was tried before Johnson, J., who when defendant rested denied plaintiffs motion to strike out all of defendant’s evidence on the ground that no sufficient foundation had been laid to show a valid gift of the property, and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of defendant. From an order denying his motion for judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
Plaintiff is a retired farmer resident of Goodhue county, past 60 years of age. During the years of his active life he acquired considerable valuable farm land in Goodhue county. He had three sons and three daughters, all of whom grew to maturity and married. To the three daughters he gave $1,500 each. One son he' placed in possession of the home 80 acres and made a will devising this to him on certain conditions as to support. To another son he sold 85 acres of land for $3,200, crediting him with $1,500 by way of gift and $700 by way of past services. Sidney, now deceased, was the oldest…
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