Ricker v. Butler
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Hennepin county, to determine the adverse claims of defendants to land in that county, alleged in the complaint to be vacant and unoccupied. The defendants answered alleging title in fee and possession in defendant Butler (the other defendants being his mortgagees) and asking judgment confirming his title as against the claims of plaintiff. The action was tried by Young, J., who ordered judgment for defendants.
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Action brought in the district court for Hennepin county, to determine the adverse claims of defendants to land in that county, alleged in the complaint to be vacant and unoccupied. The defendants answered alleging title in fee and possession in defendant Butler (the other defendants being his mortgagees) and asking judgment confirming his title as against the claims of plaintiff. The action was tried by Young, J., who ordered judgment for defendants. A new trial was refused, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Dickinson, J.1
On this appeal we are to decide whether the evidence justified a finding that for 20 years prior to the commencement of this action (November, 1889) the land in question had been in the continuous adverse possession of the defendant Butler and of one Dexter, to whose rights Butler succeeded by conveyance. In August, 1867, Silas M. Bicker being the owner (as tenant in common with others, who have since conveyed their title to the plaintiff) of an undivided one-third of the land, and one Stanchfield having an invalid tax-deed of the same land, Bicker and Stanchfield executed to…
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