Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Burlington & Missouri River Railroad v. Scott

Nebraska Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1888PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Original application for mandamus. cited: G. S., 1873, Sec. 114. Iowa Code, Sec. 1275. Right of eminent domain. JB. & O.R. R. Co. v. Koontz, 4 Am. & Eng. Railroad Cas., 108. Dietrich v. Lincoln & Northwestern R. R. Co., 13 Neb., 361. C., St. P., M. & O. R. R. Co. v. Limdstrom, 16 Id., 254. Right to the lands in question. Gottschallc v. Lincoln & Northwestern R. R. Co., 14 Neb., 390. Mills on Eminent Domain, 351. Hobart v. Ford, 6 Nev., 77. Perm.

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Original application for mandamus. cited: G. S., 1873, Sec. 114. Iowa Code, Sec. 1275. Right of eminent domain. JB. & O.R. R. Co. v. Koontz, 4 Am. & Eng. Railroad Cas., 108. Dietrich v. Lincoln & Northwestern R. R. Co., 13 Neb., 361. C., St. P., M. & O. R. R. Co. v. Limdstrom, 16 Id., 254. Right to the lands in question. Gottschallc v. Lincoln & Northwestern R. R. Co., 14 Neb., 390. Mills on Eminent Domain, 351. Hobart v. Ford, 6 Nev., 77. Perm. R. R. v. N. Y. R. R., 23 N. J. Eq., 157. cited: Rorer on Railroads, 38. Atkinson v. M. & C. R. R., 15 Ohio State, 33. Hull-v. G, B. & Q. R. R., 21…

1Opinion of the Court

Maxwell, Ch. J.

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus to require the defendant, Joseph Scott, as commissioner of public-lands-and buildings, to forthwith prepare a deed for execution by the governor of certain lots owned by the state, and to require the governor to execute and deliver the same to the relators. The relators allege in their petition that, “they are corporations duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Nebraska, that the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad Company in Nebraska formerly owned a line of railroad extending from…

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  4. Deitrichs v. Lincoln & Northwestern R.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1882
  5. Livergood v. RhoadesIndiana Supreme Court · 1863

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