Atwater v. Russell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants Anna S. Russell, Walter S. Martin, Margaret G. Brown, and St. Luke’s Hospital from orders of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., made September 29, 1891, refusing to each a new trial of the action. Many of the matters recited in the statement of facts in the preceding will case, ante, p. 22, are 'pertinent in this, and reference is here made to that statement.
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Appeal by defendants Anna S. Russell, Walter S. Martin, Margaret G. Brown, and St. Luke’s Hospital from orders of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., made September 29, 1891, refusing to each a new trial of the action. Many of the matters recited in the statement of facts in the preceding will case, ante, p. 22, are 'pertinent in this, and reference is here made to that statement. At the time of executing the codicil to the will set out in that case Richard Martin, deceased, executed and delivered to Edward Martin, Isaac Atwater, and William W. Eolwell a deed of the Keegan farm,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This was an action brought for the purpose of obtaining from the court a construction of a certain trust deed in which plaintiffs were named as grantees, executed and delivered October 1, 1888, by one Bichard Martin, since deceased. It is the trust deed mentioned in the codicil to the last will and testament of said Martin, ante, p. 31, (51 N. W. Rep. 624.) That action was brought by these plaintiffs, as executors, against these same defendants, as heirs at law and devisees. The deed purports to convey to plaintiffs, as trustees, valuable real property in Hennepin county, Minnesota.
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