Carson v. Cochran
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, Thomas Cochran, Jr., the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Eailway Company and others, from a judgment of the District Court of'Fillmore County, Farmer, J., entered March 25, 1892. Twenty-six persons on August 28, 1868, agreed together to each pay in $2,500, making a total of $65,000, and with it to buy of Cyrus G. Wykoff, five hundred and twenty-five acres of land on Eoot Eiver in Fillmore county, and layout a village thereon, to be,called Lanesboro,…
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Appeal by defendants, Thomas Cochran, Jr., the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Eailway Company and others, from a judgment of the District Court of'Fillmore County, Farmer, J., entered March 25, 1892. Twenty-six persons on August 28, 1868, agreed together to each pay in $2,500, making a total of $65,000, and with it to buy of Cyrus G. Wykoff, five hundred and twenty-five acres of land on Eoot Eiver in Fillmore county, and layout a village thereon, to be,called Lanesboro, construct a dam on, the river, create a. water power, build, a hotel, grade streets, and make other improvements on the…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This was an action to foreclose a mortgage on real estate. The only questions raised by the appeal áre whether the conclusions of law were justified by the findings of fact.
1. The first and second assignments of error go to the point that a certain trust (Exhibit A of the complaint) attempted to be created by Thompson, Kingsley, and Lane, and under which they assumed to execute the mortgage in question, is void.
To this there are at least three complete answers: First. The only interest which the defendants claim in the property is under *72this very trust, either as trustees or as the grantees…
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