Rasicot v. Little Falls Improvement & Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Morrison county to recover damages for overflowing plaintiff’s land. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $629.20, which sum, according to their special finding, included $125, assessed as damages for removing logs. From an order, Baxter, J., denying a motion for a new trial in case plaintiff should file a stipulation reducing the verdict by said sum of $125, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
From some time prior to the year 1882, plaintiff has been the owner and in possession of a farm situated on the east bank of the Mississippi river, a few miles above the city of Little Falls. That year, for the sum of $50, he granted and conveyed to N. P. Clarke and others, his wife joining in the deed,
“All the right, title, and interest in and to the use and enjoyment of the Mississippi river, the water thereof, and the land covered thereby, for the purpose of booming and holding logs, lumber, and timber therein, which the said parties of the first part, or either of them, now have by reason…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Farrand v. ClarkeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
3Cited by2 opinions
- Reeves v. Backus-Brooks Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
- Gravel v. Little Falls Improvement & Navigation Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1898