WICHELMAN v. MESSNER

No. 36,745.

250 Minn. 88 (1957)

83 N.W. (2d) 800

MELVIN WICHELMAN v. FRED MESSNER AND OTHERS. JOHN GLAESER AND ANOTHER, RESPONDENTS.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young, Kunz & Mueller and Sheldon S. Larson, for appellants.

Philip L. Scherer, for respondent-plaintiff.

Clinton W. Redlund, Gerald T. Carroll, Gerald T. Carroll, Jr., John R. Carroll, Cohen, Wartchow & Cross, John C. Connelly, Diessner, Wurst & Bundlie, Eugene J. Farrell, Eugene L. Heck, Charles B. Howard, George R. Kodadek, Larson, Loevinger, Lindquist, Freeman & Fraser, Robert A. Levitt, James D. Olson, Roy E.J. Puelston, Strong, Strong & Tully, H. Gordon Taylor, Thompson, Hessian, Fletcher & McKasy, Everett, Thiel & Root, Garrity & Garrity, Thornton & Thornton, Gislason, Reim & Minium, Johnson & Lovrien, Wheeler, Burns & Buchanan, Barnard & Hilleren, Holmquist & Holmquist, Eastvold & Pflueger, Johanson, Winter & Lundquist, Nelson & Clemmensen, Frundt & Hibbs, and Cutter & Babcock, for appellants as amici curiae.

Edward J. Cincera, A. Laurence Davis, Morgan, Raudenbush, Morgan, Oehler & Davis, Frank G. Hodgson, Benno F. Wolff, Oppenheimer, Hodgson, Brown, Baer & Wolff, Fred H. Kueppers, C. Alfred Bergsten, Ralph Comaford, J.B. Clarkson, Youngquist, Furber, Comaford, Danforth & Clarkson, Faegre & Benson, H.C. Mackall, R. M. Crounse, Floyd E. Nelson, Fred L. Thorson, Mackall, Crounse, Moore, Helmey & Palmer, Cant, Taylor, Haverstock, Beardsley & Gray, Russell W. Lindquist, Dorsey, Owen, Barker, Scott & Barber, A.R. Pfau III, Charles H. Richter, A. Gordon Rosenmeier, J.B. Forbes, Roger Catherwood, William J. Nierengarten, Raymond B. Ondov, Philip Richardson, Paul R. Hamerston, Thomas M. McCabe, McCabe, Clure, Van Evera & Donovan, Arthur Roberts, Robert J. Gillespie, and John E. Harrigan, for respondent-plaintiff as amici curiae.


MURPHY, JUSTICE.

Action to determine adverse claims and to obtain possession of certain realty by Melvin Wichelman against Fred Messner, Independent Consolidated School District No. 81 of Sibley County, Victor Glaeser, and John Glaeser. The Glaesers have interests identical to plaintiff but, having refused to join plaintiff's action, they were joined as defendants. The trial court determined the fee simple interests to be an undivided 627/648 in plaintiff, an undivided...

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