Jones v. Bliss
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs, Harry W. Jones, Sarah M. Garter, and Rebecca J. Dean, from the judgment of the district court of Scott county, Cadwell, J., entered September 17, 1891, in favor of Stephen N. Bliss and Margaret R., his wife. The plaintiffs are the children and heirs at law of Enos Jones, who died intestate June 18, 1889, in Oregon.
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Appeal by plaintiffs, Harry W. Jones, Sarah M. Garter, and Rebecca J. Dean, from the judgment of the district court of Scott county, Cadwell, J., entered September 17, 1891, in favor of Stephen N. Bliss and Margaret R., his wife. The plaintiffs are the children and heirs at law of Enos Jones, who died intestate June 18, 1889, in Oregon. On May 3, 1869, he was the owner of 120 acres of land in Scott county, Minn., and on that day he mortgaged it to John G. Bass to secure the payment of $450, and interest. His wife did not join in or execute this mortgage. Bass assigned the mortgage to John S.…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The plaintiffs, heirs at law of Enos Jones, deceased, ask to have the title of the land in question here, and claimed by defendant, adjudged to be in them. It appears from the pleadings and findings that Enos Jones was the patentee of the premises, and was in the actual possession thereof up to the date of the deed to one David Brown, mentioned in the record. The court, however, does not find, and the evidence is not such as to require a finding, that the land, or any part of it, was the family homestead or occupied as such by Jones. At the date of the deed he had gone to Kansas to live, and…
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- Blodgett v. HittWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Sennett v. ShehanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
- Van Doren v. BaileySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
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