Watkins v. Hackett
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the district court for Wabasha county, sustaining a general demurrer interposed by defendant Hackett to his complaint.
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This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the district court for Wabasha county, sustaining a general demurrer interposed by defendant Hackett to his complaint. The facts alleged in the complaint, and the object of the action, and the questions raised by the demurrer are, in brief) as follows: On December 9,1865, defendant Yale, and his wife, executed and delivered to the plaintiff, a mortgage upon certain lands in Wabasha county, to secure the sum of $5,500, payable in five different installments, which mortgage contained the usual power of sale in case of default. Subsequently,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Berry, J.
On the ninth day of December, 1865, the plaintiff was owner in fee of the following lands in township 110, range 11, Wabasha county, to-wit: The northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the west half of the northwest quarter of section sixteen, and also a small parcel in section seventeen, adjoining the parcels last mentioned.
On the same day plaintiff sold and conveyed said lands to John Yale, taking back a…
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