Legal Opinion

Parker v. St. Martin

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided April 7, 1893PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal by plaintiff, Hazen M. Parker, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Canty, J., made May 19, 1892, sustaining a demurrer to his complaint. The complaint stated these facts; In 1881, Peter M. Peterson ■owned the south half of the northeast quarter and lots two (2) and three (3) in section thirty (30,) and lot four (4) in section twenty-eight (28,) in township twenty-seven (27) range twenty-four (24) in Hennepin county.

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Appeal by plaintiff, Hazen M. Parker, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Canty, J., made May 19, 1892, sustaining a demurrer to his complaint. The complaint stated these facts; In 1881, Peter M. Peterson ■owned the south half of the northeast quarter and lots two (2) and three (3) in section thirty (30,) and lot four (4) in section twenty-eight (28,) in township twenty-seven (27) range twenty-four (24) in Hennepin county. In that year Peterson and wife mortgaged all this land to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1884, Peterson died intestate, leaving his…

1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.

In 1884 one Peterson died seised of the lands described in the complaint, then subject to a mortgage thereon, previously executed by him to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. He left him surviving, his wife, Hilda, and four minor children, to whom the land was assigned by the probate court, in the proportion of one third to the widow, and the remaining two thirds to the children, undivided.

The mortgage was afterwards foreclosed, and the year for redemption expired January 27, 1890. Prior to the foreclosure the defendant St. Martin was appointed guardian of the estate of the minor…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Kendrick v. RyusSupreme Court of Missouri · 1910
  2. Bartleson v. MunsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
  3. Betcher v. EbertSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1926
  4. Krahmer v. KochSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1944

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