Raunn v. Leach
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Knute A. Raunn, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, Galvin L. Brown, J., made February 25, 1893, overruling Ms demurrer to the answer. The plaintiff alleged that he owned the northwest quarter of section two (2) T. 154, R. 45, in Polk county, worth $500. That the defendant John Leach owned it January 15, 1880, and on that day mortgaged it to plaintiff to secure the payment of $200 and interest, one year thereafter.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Knute A. Raunn, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis County, Galvin L. Brown, J., made February 25, 1893, overruling Ms demurrer to the answer. The plaintiff alleged that he owned the northwest quarter of section two (2) T. 154, R. 45, in Polk county, worth $500. That the defendant John Leach owned it January 15, 1880, and on that day mortgaged it to plaintiff to secure the payment of $200 and interest, one year thereafter. That the defendant failed to pay and plaintiff foreclosed the mortgage by action in the District Court, and defendant was served by…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
In this action, brought to determine an adverse claim made to certain real estate, the complaint and answer disclosed that plaintiff’s alleged title in fee depended wholly upon the regularity of the proceedings in an action brought in 1882 to foreclose a mortgage upon the property, executed and delivered to him by the defendant, said action having been brought while the latter was a nonresident of the state, and service of the summons having been made, if at all, by publication. By demurrer to the answer the regularity and sufficiency of these foreclosure proceedings have been assailed at but…
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