State Ex Rel. Olsen v. Sundling

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS:

Claim and delivery by the state (plaintiff and appellant) to recover the possession of a described road roller from one Sundling (defendant and respondent), who had purchased it for $3,-500 on September 18, 1954, from one ICallestad. Kallestad himself purchased from Walter R. Rankin, who was an employee of the state, or more specifically of its state park commission.

The complaint alleged right to possession, but not title in the state. Sundling admitted only the official capacity of the attorney general, the relator who brought the action; otherwise his answer was a general…