Midwest Oil Co. v. Youngquist

This is a mandamus proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of Minnehaha County against the State Treasurer. The application for the writ alleges that plaintiff is engaged in the business of selling at wholesale and retail gasoline and other petroleum products; that a water main in a street in the city of Aberdeen adjacent to the premises where plaintiff maintains underground gasoline tanks broke; that the water through the break in the pipe continued to flow for several hours and “attained the proportions of a terrific flood, flowing over ground and under ground, and flowed in and about…