Dawson v. Helmes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for McLeod county, Macdonald, J., presiding, refusing a new trial, the court having directed a verdict for defendant.
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Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for McLeod county, Macdonald, J., presiding, refusing a new trial, the court having directed a verdict for defendant. The case is stated in the opinion, and the record evidence mentioned therein is as follows: The record of the guardian’s deed offered in evidence by plaintiff was as follows: “To all persons to whom these presents shall come: “Benjamin A. D. Young, of the county of Dakota, in the state of Minnesota, guardian of Benjamin Moseph Young, Anthony Tyler Young, and Alexander Hypolite Young, minors, and children of the aforesaid…
1Opinion of the Court
Beiíbt, J.
This in an action in the nature of ejectment, defendant being in possession. Both parties claim to derive title from Benjamin Young. Plaintiff, to make out his title, put in evidence three pages of Book A of Deeds of the registry of deeds for McLeod ■county. These are a record of a deed of the land in controversy, dated January 16, 1858, and purporting to have been executed by a guardian of Benjamin Young, and a record of a copy (certified by the probate judge of Dakota county) of an order of said judge dated February 23, 1858, confirming a sale assumed to be that in pursuance of…
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