Lucy v. Lucy
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in thé district court for Scott county to quiet title to eighty acres of land and to set aside and cancel a deed executed to defendant by Daniel Lucy, the father of the parties hereto, the former owner of the land.
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Action in thé district court for Scott county to quiet title to eighty acres of land and to set aside and cancel a deed executed to defendant by Daniel Lucy, the father of the parties hereto, the former owner of the land. The answer alleged that at the time of the execution of the deed the property conveyed was a homestead and no decree of court had been entered debarring the insane wife of Daniel Ducy from her right in the land or giving him authority to sell the land without her signature. That after the execution of the first deed he had abandoned his homestead. The case was tried before…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff and respondent and defendant and appellant were sons of one Daniel Ducy. His wife and their mother during all the time here involved was, and now is, in an insane asylum. On the sixth day.of August, 1901, the father conveyed the land here involved to the plaintiff under an agreement by deed recorded a week later. After the execution of the deed, the father left the premises, which were his homestead, ceased to reside thereon, and wholly abandoned the same. Both parties agree that his homestead right then ceased. Plaintiff, after the execution of the deed, took possession of the…
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