Lind v. Russell

Action for specific performance, decision for defendants, and appeal by plaintiffs from the order refusing to amend the findings and denying a new trial.

In the early days of the state one Russell owned a government lot on St. Croix river which was platted as a townsite, but no town arose thereon. Russell died, leaving three young children, who were taken by relatives to a distant state. They are now elderly people, one in California and two in Michigan. No taxes were paid, and the Russell heirs either did not know that their father died the owner of this land or else deemed it not of…