FIRST TRUST CO. OF NORTH DAKOTA v. Mast

MESCHKE, Justice.

“The Kopanger’s kept and left their land to their daughters: Muriel, Naomi, Juletta and Winnifred.”

Winnifred thus summarizes the background of her pro se appeal of a judgment ordering partition of the 320 acre Kopanger farm among the daughters, making a lyrical plea to keep the Kopanger farm intact. Regrettably, the law grants us no poetic license to substitute a different plan of devolution for the one left by her parents. Therefore, we affirm the judgment of partition.

Joseph and Selma Kopanger raised four daughters on their half-section farm in the Red River Valley. Three…