Wilcox v. St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The St. Paul & Northern Pacific Bailway Company commenced proceedings in the district court for Hennepin county to condemn foi its uses lots one and two in block ten of Bottineau’s second addition to St. Anthony. For the taking of these lots the commissioners awarded, as damages, $1,000 to M. B. Wilcox, who was named as sole owner in the petition of the railway company.
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The St. Paul & Northern Pacific Bailway Company commenced proceedings in the district court for Hennepin county to condemn foi its uses lots one and two in block ten of Bottineau’s second addition to St. Anthony. For the taking of these lots the commissioners awarded, as damages, $1,000 to M. B. Wilcox, who was named as sole owner in the petition of the railway company. From this award Wilcox appealed to the district court, where the appeal was tried before Koon, J., with a jury, who found the value of the lots to be $1,300, and assessed the damages of Wilcox for the taking or injuriously…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
This appellant filed its petition for the condemnation for railroad purposes of lots 1 and 10, in a certain block of land in Bottineau’s second addition to St. Anthony, in which petition this respondent, Wilcox, was named as the owner of the property. Wilcox appealed to the district court from the award of commissioners. Prior to the trial in the district court the railway company (having authority from the municipality, but without having executed the bond prescribed by Gen. St. 1878, c. 34, § 24,) entered upon that part of the street adjacent to lots 1 and 10, and constructed its railroad…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Sherwood v. St. Paul & Chicago Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1874
- Blake v. Winona & St. Peter RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872
- Wilmes v. Minneapolis & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1882
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