Johanson v. Hoff
Supreme Court of Minnesota
In the matter of the estate of Neis J. Hoff, deceased, in the probate court for St. Louis county, Carl M. Johanson, administrator of the estate of John Erickson, deceased, filed a claim for $435 for rent due under a lease, which was disallowed, and from the order of dis-allowance, he appealed to the district court for said county.
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In the matter of the estate of Neis J. Hoff, deceased, in the probate court for St. Louis county, Carl M. Johanson, administrator of the estate of John Erickson, deceased, filed a claim for $435 for rent due under a lease, which was disallowed, and from the order of dis-allowance, he appealed to the district court for said county. The case was tried in the district court without a jury before Moer, J., who found as facts, among other things, that the consideration of $1,500 mentioned in the lease which is referred to in the opinion was not paid at* its execution, and that no part thereof had…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
On May 22, 1891, the respondent’s intestate, John Erickson, made and delivered to the appellant’s intestate, Neis J. Hoff, a written lease of certain ground in the city of Duluth for the period of three years, at the rental of $1,500 for the entire term. Erickson died intestate March 27, 1893, and Hoff died intestate July 4, 1893. At the time of Hoff’s death he had paid upon the lease the sum of at least $1,065, although the accrued rent up to that date amounted only to the sum of $1,058.32. There is sufficient evidence to show that Erickson’s administrator adopted the lease, and assumed…
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