Holmes v. Wilkes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Mille Lacs county to determine adverse claims to certain vacant and unoccupied land. The case was tried before Parsons, J., who found that defendant William C. Doane was the owner in fee of the premises and that the contract, the deed from defendants Wilkes to plaintiff, and the mortgage from plaintiff to defendant bank, should be canceled. From the order denying his motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Dibell, C.
This action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendants ' A. C. Wilkes, and his wife, Josephine Wilkes, and William C. Doane, and his wife, Essie P. Doane, to determine adverse claims to 120 acres in Mille Lacs county. The Market State Bank, which had an apparent mortgage on the lands, and Paul E. Ochu, its cashier, were afterwards made defendants on application of the other defendants. There were findings for the defendants; and the conclusions of law directed the cancelation of a deed to the plaintiff, hereinafter mentioned, the cancelation of an agreement for the exchange…
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