Roy v. Harrison Iron Mining Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Itasca county to determine adverse claims to certain vacant and unoccupied land. The defendant iron mining company alone appeared.
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Action in the district court for Itasca county to determine adverse claims to certain vacant and unoccupied land. The defendant iron mining company alone appeared. Its answer denied the allegations of the complaint and as a counterclaim alleged that plaintiff claimed some interest or ownership by reason of a conveyance in the year 1892 from her mother Philomen Roy, Sen., who with her husband in the year 1873 conveyed by good and sufficient deed to defendant’s predecessors or grantors, and after the making and delivery of such deed Philomen Roy, Sen., and her husband never had any right, title…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
Plaintiff brought this action to quiet title. October 25, 1873, Philomen Boy, Sr., who was then the wife of Peter Boy, applied to the United States to locate one hundred sixty acres of land in Stearns county. On January 10, 1874, a receipt for $200 in full payment was issued to her by the receiver at Duluth, showing her to be entitled to a patent for the land. A patent was subsequently issued to. her, dated April 20, 1875, and which, according to a notation on the government records, was on June 5, 1878, mailed to H. F. Brown. On September 18, 1872, there was executed a power of attorney, a…
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