Johnson v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Mary B. Harrison, late of St. Paul, Ramsey county, in this state, died in that city on April 17, 1890, leaving surviving her Lawrence L. Harrison, her husband, Stina Johnson, her mother, and two sisters, but no father, brother, child, or issue of any deceased child.
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Mary B. Harrison, late of St. Paul, Ramsey county, in this state, died in that city on April 17, 1890, leaving surviving her Lawrence L. Harrison, her husband, Stina Johnson, her mother, and two sisters, but no father, brother, child, or issue of any deceased child. Her estate, which consisted of a single lot of land in St. Paul, was administered in the probate court of that county, which made a final decree assigning the whole of such real estate to her husband in fee simple. At the hearing in the probate court, Stina Johnson, the mother of the decedent, objected to the assigning of more…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
Chapter 46, Laws 1889, entitled “An act to establish a Probate Code,” is divided into 21 subchapters, containing 326 sections. The intention of the legislature obviously was to enact, in the form of one act, a complete system of statutory law relating to or connected with those matters of which, under the constitution, probate courts have jurisdiction, to wit, “estates of deceased persons and of persons under guardianship.” It is contended that the act is repugnant to section 27, article 4, of the constitution of the state, which provides that “no law shall embrace more than one subject,…
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