Security Land & Exploration Co. v. Burns
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Separate actions in ejectment in the district court for St. Louis county by plaintiff, Security Land & Exploration Company, against defendants G. A. Burns and another, and defendants Henry Weckey and another. The cases were by consent tried together-before Cant, J., who found in favor of defendants. From separate judgments entered pursuant to the findings, plaintiff appealed. Judgments The so-called meander line is not a factor in the case. Schur-meier v. St. Paul & Pac.
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Separate actions in ejectment in the district court for St. Louis county by plaintiff, Security Land & Exploration Company, against defendants G. A. Burns and another, and defendants Henry Weckey and another. The cases were by consent tried together-before Cant, J., who found in favor of defendants. From separate judgments entered pursuant to the findings, plaintiff appealed. Judgments The so-called meander line is not a factor in the case. Schur-meier v. St. Paul & Pac. R. Co., 10 Minn. 59 (82), 7 Wall. 272; Sizor v. City, 151 Ind. 626, 628; Boorman v. Sunnuchs, 42 Wis. 238; Everson v. City…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
These are ejectment actions to recover possession of certain land in section 4 of township 57, range 17, in the county of St. Louis, this state.
The controverted questions of law and fact are the same in each case, and for this reason they were by stipulation heard together in the district court and in this court. The defendants in each case recovered a judgment in their favor in the district court, from which the plaintiff appealed.
*99The here-material facts, as found by the trial court, are substantially these: The township named was ordered surveyed by the general land office, and the contract…
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- Horne v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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