Yorks v. Mooberg
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in ejectment in the district court for Washington county. The case ■ was tried before Williston, J., who found in favor of plaintiff and directed judgment against defendant for $112 for the use and occupation of the land. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
The complaint herein alleged that on or about November 27, 1894, the plaintiff was, and ever since has been, the owner and entitled to the possession of a certain forty acres of land; that the defendant is, and ever since May 25, 1896, has been, in the unlawful possession thereof, and wrongfully withholding the same from the plaintiff, and that the reasonable value of the mesne profits arising from the land since the defendant has been in 4he possession thereof was the sum of $500; and that he had been damaged in that sum by the withholding of the land from him.
The answer denied…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Backus v. AmesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- Fossum v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- Papooshek v. Winona & St. Peter RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Blondel v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
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