Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Clay county, among other things to annul, as in fraud of creditors, a deed of land made by defendant Elm-wood Farm Company to defendant Flour City National Bank and a contract for the sale of the land executed by these defendants; and, in case this relief should be denied, to have the deed declared a mortgage and to foreclose the same.
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Action in the district court for Clay county, among other things to annul, as in fraud of creditors, a deed of land made by defendant Elm-wood Farm Company to defendant Flour City National Bank and a contract for the sale of the land executed by these defendants; and, in case this relief should be denied, to have the deed declared a mortgage and to foreclose the same. The case was tried before Baxter, J., who granted a motion to dismiss and for judgment in favor of defendants upon the close of plaintiff’s testimony. No findings of fact were filed. From an order denying a motion for a new…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The plaintiff' is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of threshing machines. In 1891 the C. P. Jones Stock & Grain Farming Company, afterwards known as the Elmwood Farm Company, owned a farm of four thousand seven hundred twenty acres of land in Clay county; being the land described in plaintiff’s complaint. In 1891 that company purchased a threshing machine from the plaintiff and in payment gave its note, guarantied by C. P. Jones. On January 18, 1893, the Elmwood Farm Company deeded all of the premises described in the complaint to the defendant the Flour City National Bank. During the…
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- Jewell v. WeedSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872
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