Malone v. Malone
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Steele county to determine the adverse claims of defendants to land in possession of plaintiff and to cancel certain deeds executed by defendant Patrick Malone purporting to convey the land to defendants Arthur J. and Francis P. Hagan. The case was tried before Buckham, J., who found in favor of plaintiff. From a judgment entered pursuant to the findings, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLovely, J.
Tbe plaintiff, James E. Malone, claims ownership to an eighty-acre tract of land in Steele county by virtue of an executed parol gift from his father, Patrick Malone, one of the defendants, foi lowed by his subsequent adverse possession for more than fifteen years before the commencement of this action. Upon the course pursued at the trial, this suit must be treated as an action to determiner the adverse claims of defendants to the property in question.
From the pleadings it appears that the record title to the land was in defendant Patrick Malone until 1901, when he executed to the two…
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