Minnesota Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota, Volume 5

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Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
 

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Page 238 - An action may be brought by any person in possession, by himself or his tenant of real property, against any person who claims an estate or interest therein adverse to him. for the purpose of determining such adverse claim, estate or interest.
Page 66 - ... in its discretion, and upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment, order, or other proceeding, taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect...
Page 212 - There was no reply, and on the trial the jury returned a general verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of the notes.
Page 149 - A corporation or association may be sued in the county where the contract is made or is to be performed, or where the obligation or liability arises, or the breach occurs; or in the county where the principal place of business of such corporation is situated, subject to the power of the Court to change the place of trial as in other cases.
Page 86 - The judicial power of the state shall be vested in a supreme court, in circuit courts, and in such other courts as the general assembly may establish.
Page 234 - And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby offered to the convention of the eastern state of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States.
Page 265 - As a general rule, a party will be concluded from denying his own acts or admissions, which were expressly designed to influence the conduct of another, and did so influence it, and when such denial will operate to the injury of the latter.
Page 275 - It is true that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to all the equities to which it was subject in the hands of the assignor...
Page 238 - Unless letters patent are absolutely void on the face of them, or the issuing of them was without authority, or was prohibited by statute, they can only be avoided in a regular course of pleading, in which the fraud, irregularity, or mistake is regularly put in issue.
Page 235 - States, that the said state shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, nor with any regulations congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers thereof: and that no tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and that in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents...

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