Hiller v. Smith

LORING, Justice.

David L. Hiller held a quitclaim deed to the premises in question and in 1931 filed his application to register the title under the Torrens act. The application was referred by the court to the examiner of titles for Hennepin county, as referee, as a default matter, but before the referee’s report was filed defendant answered, setting up a contract for deed to the same premises in which Hiller’s grantor, one Hodge, was the vendor and appellant the vendee. Applicant had previously in 1926 been the owner of the property in question under a conveyance from Hodge, subject to the…