Skaffaren och Minnesota stats tidning. (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1882-1885, 1884-09-03
Rev. A p. MOnten's Answer.


R-v. A. P. Monten is pastor of the first
Swedish Ev. Lutheran Church in this City
and hs taken an active part in the work Of
the church during the last eighteen years,
and ha, been pastor Of said church in st
Paul for seven years.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
~ of Ramsey, - District Court, Second
Judicial district.
SVEN JoHAN MoNTEN, a person
of unsound mind, by his guard
ian, HERMAN STCcKENsTRoM,
Plaintiff,
ANDREW P. MoNTEN,
Defendant.
The answer of the above named defend
ant to the complaint herein, denies
that the plaintiff for more than seven years
last past, has been of unsound mind by
reason of loss or imperfection of his mental
faculties, or has been during that period of
time incompetent to have the charge or
management of his property or estate, ex-
cept that he admits that at times during the
last seven years the faculties of the said
plaintiff have been weak and inefficient, at
which times he was not capable of properly
managing his concerns and property, and
that at other times during such period, the
mental faculties of said plaintiff have been
ordinarily good, but that the condition of
said plaintiff as to mental imperfections
became worse and aggravated at or about
the time application was made for the ap-
pointment of a guardian for him by the
probate Court of Ramsey County.
He admits the allegations af the COM
plant from and after the words ''The plain
tiff further" in folio Two thereof down to
the end of the paragraph numbered One in
said complaint, except that he AYERS that
the application for guardianship in said
probate Court was based upon allegations
that the said plaintiff was unable to take
proper care of himself, and incapable Of
managing his affairs and upon no other
allegations.
He admits that on the Thirtheenth day
of September, A. D. 1880, and for some
time before that day, the plaintiff was the
owner in fee simple of the land described ir
the complaint, but he AYERS that the value
of said land on the date last aforesaid die
not exceed One thousand dollars and was
about that sum.
He admits that he is minister of the
Gospel and the plaintiffs brother, ,and denies
that he ever exercised great or controlling
Or undue influence over the acts of the
plaintiff in any of his affairs, or that fol
any time he has controlled or directed the
plaintiff in all of his business transactions
or that during all the time aforesaid the
mental infrmities of the plaintiff were 9th
erwise than as above stated.
In regard to the execution of the sale
| deed this defendant AYERS that the facts arr
as follows and not otherwise: In the montl
of June or July, AID. 1880, this defendant
fearing that his brother, who was then il
Kansas, was sick, and conceiving it to b.
his duty to look after him, went from hi
home in st. Paul, Minnesota, to McPher
son county, Kansas, where the plaintiff thel
was.
That previous to this time he had no
seen the plaintiff for about five years, tina
upon his arrival in said county in =, ,nsas
he found the plaintiff recovering from e
of sickness, but too sick to be removed to ST
Paul, as was the defendants intention whe]
he went to Kansas; whereupon defendan
returned to st. Paul. That thereafter an
early in September, A. d. 1880, the plain
tiff, having recovered sufficiently to be abb
to travel, was sent to St. Paul in pursuanc
of directions to that effect which this de
fendant had given while in Kansas an
came TO live with this defendant. That i
going to Kansas and returning, and in pay
ling the expenses of the plaintiff to come t
st. Paul, this defendant was at great ez
pense, to wit, in the sum of Seventy-eigt
dollars, and consumed about one weeks tim
in his said visit to Kansas.
u That while in Kansas, the defenda1
: ascertained that the said land had been sol
for taxes, whereupon the defendant viii
there redeemed said land from said sal
paying therefor about the sum of Thirt,
, one dollars, and some other incidental sun
8 making the amount Thirty-two dc iar
9 Thirty two cents.
That after the plaintiff arrived in 81. Pau
it was mutually agreed between him and Il