Cannon v. Emmans
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action to determine defendant’s adverse claim to vacant land in Minneapolis, brought in the district court for Hennepin county, and • tried by Hooker, J., who ordered judgment for defendant. The plaintiff appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtYanderburgh, J.
The dispute is as to the location of a boundary line, and involves the title to 13.34 feet of land fronting on Lyndale avenue, in the city of Minneapolis. The common source of title was Allen Harmon, who owned the government subdivision in which the land in controversy lies. There was conveyed to one Sampson by Allen Harmon, by deed dated May, 1857, a tract of land described as follows: “Beginning at a point 30 feet north of the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of the northwest £ of section 27, town 29, range 24 west, being the centre of block 33 in Wilson, Bell & Wagner’s addition…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Norris v. DoniphanCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1863
- Walsh v. HillCalifornia Supreme Court · 1869
- Witt v. St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
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- Austrian v. DavidsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1874
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