Mercil v. Broulette
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Polk ■county, Ives, J., granting a motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This was an action in claim and delivery, the property in dispute being a quantity of wheat grown in 1894 on the land involved in the case of St. Paul, M. & M. R. Co. v. Broulette, 65 Minn. 367, 67 N. W. 1010, in which it was held that Michael Broulette, defendant herein, had acquired no right to or title in the land by virtue of a purchase made in 1877 of certain improvements, and a pretended *417settlement thereon at the same time under the homestead act of the United States, but that it was, as part of its land grant, the property of the railway company, having been certified as such by the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. v. BrouletteSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
- Stearns v. SampsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1871
3Cited by8 opinions
- Berg v. WileySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1978
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- Lobdell v. KeeneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
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