Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Emmons
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The plaintiff below, the defendant in error here, is a citizen of Minnesota, and for some years previously and at the commencement of this action was the owner of a farm in that State of one hundred and sixty acres, which he occupied with his family as a homestead. He enclosed the farm with a suitable fence, cultivated it, and kept stock upon it. In October, 1879, he sold and conveyed to the defendant, a railway corporation organized under the laws of the State, a right of way for a railroad across the farm fifty feet wide on each' side of the road. Soon afterwards the companyconstructed the…
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