Pfiffner v. Stillwater & St. Paul Railroad

Gileillan, C. 3:

Action in trespass for entering upon, taking possession of, and continuing to use for railroad purposes a strip of land belonging to plaintiff. The answer sets up, as a defence and .counterclaim, and asks for the specific performance of, an oral agreement by plaintiff to convey the strip in question to defendant.

In 1869 defendant procured the condemnation to its use, in constructing its road, of a strip of plaintiff’s land, near to that in question, but afterwards concluded to change its line, and run it over the latter, and thereupon, without the consent of plaintiff, ran its…