Legal Opinion

Trentor v. Pothen

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 8, 1891PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Ramsey county, on January 22, 1889, against one Lue Y. Gregson, for an accounting as to an alleged partnership transaction growing out of the erection of a double dwelling-house on a lot in St. Paul, so built that the centre partition between the two dwellings was upon the line between the north half of the lot (the record title to which was in plaintiff) and the south half, (the record title to which was in defendant,)…

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Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Ramsey county, on January 22, 1889, against one Lue Y. Gregson, for an accounting as to an alleged partnership transaction growing out of the erection of a double dwelling-house on a lot in St. Paul, so built that the centre partition between the two dwellings was upon the line between the north half of the lot (the record title to which was in plaintiff) and the south half, (the record title to which was in defendant,) for a dissolution of the alleged partnership, and asking that the amount found due plaintiff on the accounting should…

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.

The brief for the appellant intervenor is somewhat obscure and disconnected in its statements, but we do not understand counsel to deny that plaintiff would be entitled to a lien on these premises as against the defendant or- his grantees with notice; but his contention is that his client is protected as a bona fide purchaser for value. Consequently the only question necessary tó be considered is whether the evidence justified the court in finding that the intervenor purchased with notice of plaintiff’s rights. Nothing can be claimed from the notice of lis pendens filed in a, former suit…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lebanon Savings Bank v. HollenbeckSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1882

3Cited by37 opinions

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  3. Citizens Bank v. Citizens & So. BankSupreme Court of Georgia · 1925
  4. Shaughnessy v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1925
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