Missouri, K. & T. Trust Co. v. Krumseig
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This was a bill filed in the district court of St. Louis county, Minn., by Theodore M. Krumseig and Louise Krumseig, the appellees, against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Missouri, the appellant, to cancel a mortgage executed by the appellees to the appellant on real estate in the city of Duluth, upon the ground that the same was void for…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This was a bill filed in the district court of St. Louis county, Minn., by Theodore M. Krumseig and Louise Krumseig, the appellees, against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Missouri, the appellant, to cancel a mortgage executed by the appellees to the appellant on real estate in the city of Duluth, upon the ground that the same was void for usury, and upon the further ground that it was a contract for life insurance, and void because the appellant was a…
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, Circuit Judge
The case of Trust Co. v. McLachlan, 59 Minn. 468, 61 N. W. 560, involved the construction of one of the appellant’s contracts identical in its provisions with the one here in suit. Judge Mitchell, speaking for the court in that case, said:
“We had supposed that in the course of our professional and judicial experience we had met with about all the forms of contract which have been devised by the *37ingenuity of modern associations of this and similar kinds, but this one is entirely novel to us. It is certainly unique, and, after a careful study of all its provisions, it seems clear to us that it…
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