Rowe v. City of Minneapolis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs, Esther M. Rowe, Frank W. Rowe, and Ida M. Simpson, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., entered September 18, 1891, that plaintiffs take nothing by this action and pay $12.78 costs.
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Appeal by plaintiffs, Esther M. Rowe, Frank W. Rowe, and Ida M. Simpson, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., entered September 18, 1891, that plaintiffs take nothing by this action and pay $12.78 costs. By stipulation filed it appeared .that David P. Spafford on May 11, 1861, owned in fee simple the north half of the south west quarter of section seven (7,) township twenty-nine (29,) range twenty-three, (23,) containing eighty acres, in the north easterly part of what is now the city of Minneapolis. On that day he and his wife conveyed to “School District No.…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Action of ejectment. The facts being agreed on and submitted in the court below, judgment was ordered and entered for defendant city. On May 11, 1861, one Spafford and his wife — Spafford then being the owner of 80 acres of land in Hennepin county — deeded about three fourths of an acre in one corner thereof to school district No. 3. In the year 1887 the entire 80 acres became a part of the defendant city by act of the legislature, and by the same legislative enactment said school district ceased to exist, 'defendant succeeding it, and becoming the owner of all its property and property…
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