State ex rel. City of St. Paul v. St. Paul City Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Upon relation of the city of St. Paul for a writ of mandamus to compel defendant to construct and maintain a certain street railway line, pursuant to a certain city ordinance requiring its construction, the district court for Ramsey county gTanted its alternative writ.
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Upon relation of the city of St. Paul for a writ of mandamus to compel defendant to construct and maintain a certain street railway line, pursuant to a certain city ordinance requiring its construction, the district court for Ramsey county gTanted its alternative writ. In its answer the respondent set up that the line ordered was a cross-town line; that there was no cross-town travel in that part of the city; and that such proposed line was in violation of the provisions of section 3 of Ordinance No. 2,786. The matter was tried before Olin B. Lewis, J., who made findings, and as conclusion of…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On February 21, 1910, the common council of the city of St. Paul duly passed an ordinance requiring the St. Paul Oity Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as the Railway Company, to lay, construct, and operate a double line of street railway upon Maryland street, from Rice street to Como boulevard, and connect the tracks thereof with its railway tracks on Rice street. The railway company refused to comply with the ordinance. Thereupon this action was commenced in the district court of the county of Ramsey to compel the construction and operation of such street railway as required by the…
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