Lamprey v. Mead
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by the defendant, the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Rascal R. Brill, J., made March 27, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial.
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Appeal by the defendant, the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Rascal R. Brill, J., made March 27, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs, Uri L. Lamprey and wife, filed their complaint April 4, 1892, against Warren H. Mead, Philip Reilly and Oscar M. Metcalf for partition, stating that Lamprey owned seven-tenths and each of the others one-tenth of an irregular unoccupied piece of land containing about eighty acres, lying in the southeast comer of section five (5), T. 28, R. 22, in West St. Paul, worth…
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
The action is for partition. The complaint claims that the plaintiffs and the defendants Mead, Reilly, and Metcalf are the owners, as tenants in common, of the land, and the other defendants are joined to determine their claim of title. The other defendants who answer claim under the railroad land grant to the Territory in 1857. The lands in township No. 28 N., of range No. 22 W. of the fourth P. M., were surveyed in 1858, the subdivision lines being run in September of that year. The map or plat of the survey was filed in the office of the surveyor general, and was by him examined and…
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- White v. BurnleySupreme Court of the United States · 1858
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