Nelson v. Carlson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Peter A. Carlson, from an order of tbe District Court of Chisago County, F. M. (Jvusby, J., made December 30, 1892, denying a new trial. On March 17, 1892, the plaintiff, Anders Nelson, owned out-lot No. two in Franconia, in that county, containing seventeen acres, and worth $1,000, but subject to a mortgage for $335. He was sixty-nine years old, feeble, weak-minded and unable to read or understand English.
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Appeal by defendant, Peter A. Carlson, from an order of tbe District Court of Chisago County, F. M. (Jvusby, J., made December 30, 1892, denying a new trial. On March 17, 1892, the plaintiff, Anders Nelson, owned out-lot No. two in Franconia, in that county, containing seventeen acres, and worth $1,000, but subject to a mortgage for $335. He was sixty-nine years old, feeble, weak-minded and unable to read or understand English. Defendant, by his agent Charles Swenson, proposed to him to deed to him lot twenty-one (21) in block nine (9) of Morrison & Lovejoy’s Addition to Minneapolis, subject…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This was an action for the rescission of an executed contract of exchange of properties, the plaintiff having executed to defendant a conveyance of certain land in the village of Franconia in consideration of a conveyance by the latter to the former of a house and lot in the city of Minneapolis.
The ground on which a rescission is asked is the alleged false and fraudulent representations of defendant, or rather of his agent *92through whom the trade was made, by which one house and lot was-pointed out to plaintiff as the property which it was proposed to convey to him, and which he supposed he…
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