When two or more persons are interested, as joint tenants or as tenants in common, in real property in which one or more of them have an estate of inheritance or for life or for years, an action may be brought by one or more of such persons against the others for a partition thereof according to the respective rights and interests of the parties interested therein, or for a sale of such property, or a part thereof, if it appears that a partition cannot be had without great prejudice to the owners.
Minn. Stat. § 558.01
PARTITION, SALE; WHO MAY BRING ACTION.
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Neumann v. Anderson (2018)
Most recently applied in Neumann v. Anderson (April 2018)
(9524) RL s 4392
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