BLACK v. PETERSON

Civ. No. 880292.

442 N.W.2d 426 (1989)

Franklin C. BLACK, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. H.N. PETERSON, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ellen Elizabeth Magnuson, Deceased, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

June 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haugland, Heustis & Halbach, Devils Lake, for plaintiff and appellee, argued by Evan Heustis. Appearance by Peter K. Halbach, Devils Lake.

Fleming, DuBois & Trenbeath, Cavalier, and F. Lorene Whitesides Larson, Park River, for defendant and appellant, argued by Neil W. Fleming, Cavalier.


ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

H.N. Peterson has appealed from a district court judgment decreeing that Franklin C. Black is the sole owner of certain farmland and requiring Peterson to "render an accounting of his trusteeship of the land." We affirm.

Black was born in 1958. He lived with his grandmother, Ellen Magnuson, until he was nine years old, when Magnuson arranged for him to live with Peterson, who became Black's legal guardian. Black lived with Peterson...

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