Legal Opinion

Lovejoy v. Stewart

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 29, 1876PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal by defendant Stewart from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Vanderburgh, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after a trial by the court without a jury.

1Opinion of the Court

Berry, J.1

The following facts arc found by the court below: On September 14, 1861, the defendant Wardwell, being owner in fee of an undivided fourth part of the south half of the north-east quarter of section 36, town 29, range 24, situate in Hennepin county, executed and delivered to plaintiff a bond, in which she is described as the wife of James A. Lovejoy, as she then was and now is. The bond was duly acknowledged September 21, 1861, and duly recorded on January 31, 1867. Its condition was that Ward-well, his heirs, etc., should, upon the plaintiff’s request, *95execute and deliver a good…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hepburn v. GriswoldSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
  2. Gill v. BradleySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1874

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Bjerke v. ArensSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1938

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