Morrison v. Rice
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff, claiming to be the owner of an undivided one-third of a certain piece of land, brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county for partition. The defendant denied plaintiff’s title, and claimed to be the sole owner of the premises. The action was tried before Young, J., without a jury, and judgment directed and entered for defendant, from which plaintiff appeals.
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The plaintiff, claiming to be the owner of an undivided one-third of a certain piece of land, brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county for partition. The defendant denied plaintiff’s title, and claimed to be the sole owner of the premises. The action was tried before Young, J., without a jury, and judgment directed and entered for defendant, from which plaintiff appeals. From the findings of fact it appears that the only claim of title made by the plaintiff is as the widow of John H. Morrison, the former owner of the land, who. died in 1877, and who, after his marriage…
1Opinion of the CourtYanderburgh, J.
One John H. Morrison was seized of the land in controversy on and previous to the eighth day of June, 1866. The; plaintiff was then his wife. On that day he granted and conveyed, the premises to one Elias Moses, under whom, through mesne conveyances, the defendant claims title. Morrison died in April, 1877, leaving the plaintiff, his widow, him surviving. Plaintiff did not join in her husband’s deed to Moses; hence her inchoate right of dower was *437not affected thereby. But before the decease of her husband the act of March 9, 1875, (Laws 1875, c. 40,) was passed, abolishing dower. This act…
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