Bruer Lumber Co. v. Kenyon

Taylor, C.

This is an action to foreclose mechanics’ liens for labor and material furnished in making improvements on a lot in the city of Minneapolis, owned by defendant Amanda Nelson until June 29, .1922. Some days before that date her husband, defendant Edward Nelson, negotiated a sale of the lot and of other property to defendant O. B. Kenyon for the sum of $1,600. On that date she and her husband conveyed the property to Kenyon by warranty deed, and Kenyon paid $200 in money and executed to her a mortgage upon the property for the remaining $1,400 of the purchase price. The deed and…