Minnesota Supreme Court, 1892

Olson v. Amundson

Olson v. Amundson
Minnesota Supreme Court · Decided August 29, 1892 · Collins
51 Minn. 114; 52 N.W. 1096; 1892 Minn. LEXIS 22 (Minnesota Reports)

Counsel

F. V. Brown, for appellants., J. O. Haugland, and Lyndon A. Smith, for respondent.

Can I rely on this case?

Citation treatment has not been reviewed for this case. The notes below come from the citation graph and the Minnesota Revisor's amendment records, not from a review of how later courts treated this decision.

(as of 9/30/2026)

Last cited by a Minnesota appellate court in 1916, among the opinions in this site’s citation index.

Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

See our Terms of Use before relying on these notes. Report an error

Olson v. Amundson

Cases that cite this one

1 later published case cites this decision.

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

Collins, J.

The wheat in controversy was raised upon a farm the title of which was and for several years had been in plaintiff. This farm had formerly belonged to her husband, who had mortgaged it in two parcels for nearly its full value, and had allowed the mortgages to be foreclosed. With á little pecuniary assistance from a son, and with the aid of a person who procured an assignment of the foreclosure sale certificates, and also a loan upon the land for plaintiff, she was enabled to secure the fee title, and thereafter she carried on the place in her own name. There was really no evidence on the trial which would tend to establish the defendants’ claim that the transfer of the land, and the conveyances through which it was accomplished, were made with intent to defraud the husband’s creditors. But, had this been shown, that would not, of *116itself, have avoided plaintiff’s title to the crops raised by her on the farm, years after the fraudulent transaction. Sanders v. Chandler, 26 Minn. 273, (3 N. W. Rep. 351;) Hossfeldt v. Dill, 28 Minn. 469, (10 N. W. Rep. 781;) Hartman v. Weiland, 36 Minn. 223, (30 N. W. Rep. 815;) Erickson v. Paterson, 47 Minn. 525, (50 N. W. Rep. 699.)

The testimony now under consideration conclusively established that the plaintiff, with the aid of two sons, one aged twenty-four, the age of the other not appearing, cultivated the farm, and raised the wheat in question. The defendants made no attempt to controvert this except by inference, and the court was right when directing a verdict for plaintiff. There was no significance in the alleged “admission” of the plaintiff, when questioned by the agent of the defendant corporation, as to her motive in securing the title to the farm in herself.

Order affirmed.-.

(Opinion published 52 N. W. Rep. 1096.)

Case-law data current through September 30, 2026. Source: CourtListener bulk data.