Kenaston v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, from an order of the District Court of Wilkin County, Galvin L. Brown, J., made July 24, 1894, denying its motion for a new trial.
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Appeal by defendant, the Great Northern Railway Company, from an order of the District Court of Wilkin County, Galvin L. Brown, J., made July 24, 1894, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, F. E. Kenaston, commenced this action January 19,1898, under 1878 G. S. ch. 75, § 2, to determine the adverse claim of the defendant to one hundred and twenty acres of unoccupied land in the southeast quarter of Section 34, T. 133, R. 47, adjacent to Breckenridge in Wilkin county. The defendant answered claiming title. On the trial the plaintiff admitted that the Great Northern Railway Company…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
It was admitted on the trial that the defendant was the owner of the premises in controversy, unless its title has been divested by plaintiffs tax title. The validity of the tax title depends upon the sufficiency of the notices of the expiration of the time of redemption. The land was offered for sale in May, 1887, for the taxes of 1885, and, for want of purchasers, was bid in for the state. In February, 1.890, the plaintiff took state assignment certificates, and in March of the same year caused to be issued and published the notices referred to. Each of them stated that “the time of…
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