Elkhoury, Inc. vs. 35 E Shops, Ramsey County District Court File # 62-CV-12-4937 (2013)
Shaun Redford, Jackie Rubi and Tom Olson defended a landlord in two consecutive lawsuits with a tenant over interpretation of terms of a commercial lease of a liquor store building. The suit challenged the landlord’s imposition of certain maintenance, repair and replacement costs, right of access, right to control what repairs were executed, employment of expert testimony concerning the repairs. Tenant prevailed in one minor dispute. Despite the split ruling, Ramsey County District Court ruled in Olson & Lucas’ client’s favor on the landlord’s petition for attorney fees and costs and awarded the landlord over $100,000 which the landlord then recovered.
Gunn vs. Husman, et al. 27-CV-11-23454
At the appointment of a title insurer, Tom Olson and Shaun Redford successfully defended an owner where a deed in the chain of title was a forgery. We argued that the victim of the forgery slept on her rights, failed to file Notice of Lis Pendens or otherwise bring any action in a probate or in District Court and was stopped by her negligent conduct to set aside the forged deed.
Olson & Redford then brought a separate action for the title insurer intervening in another title insurer’s action to defeat coverage afforded to Olson & Lucas’ client’s seller. That insurer funded settlement of the forgery case and reimbursed the legal fees expended by the first title insurer.
Benge vs. Aardahl, et al. 71-CV-12-1678
Shaun Redford and Tom Olson forced dismissal of a suit challenging an insured’s right of access to lake front property, and resolving a boundary line. Plaintiff dismissed his lawsuit without any payment and agreed to access and property line sought by Olson & Lucas’ client.
Brad Rixmann 70-CV-13-19221 (Scott County District Court)
The owner of Pawn America sued Olson & Lucas’ developer client claiming adverse possession of acreage adjacent to Prior Lake. Jackie Rubi and Tom Olson were hired by a title insurer to defend its insured’s ownership of the land. They succeeded in gaining dissolution of a temporary restraining order preventing our developer client from proceeding with development and lot sales. They forced the plaintiff to drop his claims and to reimburse Olson & Lucas’ clients legal fees.
Wendt v. City of Prior Lake, et al. 70-CV-13-17744
At the appointment of a title insurer, Tom Olson and Jackie Rubi successfully quieted title to lakefront property located on Spring Lake. Olson & Lucas’ client, who owned the lakefront property, had received a deed to the property that did not include the entire legal description of her entire lot; instead the description ended roughly 20 feet shy of the shoreline where the City of Prior Lake had once owned a right-of-way which it vacated in 1977. Olson & Lucas established their client’s ownership of the ful