Murray v. Foskett
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Polk county to recover $1,355 or to require defendant to pay the mortgage incumbrances against certain described premises, with accrued interest from the date of delivery of certain deeds, and pay the balance of the purchase price for the premises at the rate of $4 per acre.
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Action in the district court for Polk county to recover $1,355 or to require defendant to pay the mortgage incumbrances against certain described premises, with accrued interest from the date of delivery of certain deeds, and pay the balance of the purchase price for the premises at the rate of $4 per acre. In their answer defendants, among other matters, alleged that there were only three hundred twenty acres of land included in the deeds delivered to Olaus Jacobson, amounting in all, at the value placed thereon by plaintiff, to the sum of $1,280 and that the mortgage incumbrance thereon…
1Opinion of the Court
[Jaggard, J.] 1
This is an action to recover damages claimed to have resulted from the failure to perform the terms of an escrow agreement. The court, on findings of fact and conclusions of law, ordered judgment for plaintiff and respondent. The defendant and appellant moved for judgment notwithstanding the decision or for a new trial. The appeal was taken from the order denying that motion.
Plaintiff was the owner of four hundred eighty acres of land in Hubbard county, incumbered with mortgages aggregating $1,160.50. The plaintiff agreed to sell that land free from incumbrance to one Jacobson…
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