County of Ramsey v. Stees
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Respondent, Washington M. Stees, appealed to the district court for Ramsey county from an award of compensation for land taken, by commissioners appointed to lay out an avenue around Lake Phalen, under Sp. Laws 1878, c. 150. The issue was tried by Wilkin, L, and a jury, and respondent had a verdict increasing the award from $72 to $2,600, on which judgment was entered, and the county appealed.
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Respondent, Washington M. Stees, appealed to the district court for Ramsey county from an award of compensation for land taken, by commissioners appointed to lay out an avenue around Lake Phalen, under Sp. Laws 1878, c. 150. The issue was tried by Wilkin, L, and a jury, and respondent had a verdict increasing the award from $72 to $2,600, on which judgment was entered, and the county appealed. A former appeal, from an order refusing a new trial, is reported, 27 Minn. 14. argued that the only question which could be raised in the district court related to damages, citing Turner v. Holleran, 11…
1Opinion of the Court
Gilfillan, C. J.*
On March 6, 1878, the legislature passed “An act to authorize the location of an avenue around Lake Phalen.” (Sp. Laws, 1878, c. 150) Section i designated three commissioners to locate and survey a road 60 feet wide, from the St. Paul and Lake Phalen and White Bear Lake road to the shore of Lake Phalen, and from that point to locate and survey a road or avenue 100 feet wide around the lake. Sections 4 and 5 made it their duty to cause a plat of the road to be made and filed on or before July 1, 1878, in the office of the auditor of the county of Ramsey; to appraise the…
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