Lockey v. Lockey
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Josephine E. Lockey, widow of Joseph Loclcey, deceased, petitioned the probate court for Ramsey county to set apart to her the south one-hundred two feet of lots 1 and 2 and of the east half of lot 3, block 6, Summit Park Addition to St. Paul, as the homestead of her deceased husband and family. A brother and four sisters of deceased objected to setting off to her more than the one house in which Joseph Lockey resided at the time of his death.
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Josephine E. Lockey, widow of Joseph Loclcey, deceased, petitioned the probate court for Ramsey county to set apart to her the south one-hundred two feet of lots 1 and 2 and of the east half of lot 3, block 6, Summit Park Addition to St. Paul, as the homestead of her deceased husband and family. A brother and four sisters of deceased objected to setting off to her more than the one house in which Joseph Lockey resided at the time of his death. The facts are stated in the opinion. The objections were overruled, and the four houses mentioned in the opinion, with the land on which they are…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The facts in this case, as disclosed by the stipulation of facts and ■the findings of the trial court, are as follows:
Joseph Lockey was in his lifetime the owner of a tract of land within the platted part of the city of St. Paul, facing one hundred feet on Summit avenue and two hundred fifty feet bn St. Albans street. He constructed thereon three separate buildings or tenements, one fronting on Summit avenue, one fronting on St. Albans street, and a row of four, separate from the two mentioned, also fronting on St. Albans street. Subsequent to his death, in proceedings for the administration…
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