Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. City of Minneapolis

1 Reported in 204 N.W. 934, 205 N.W. 640. Appellant owns a strip of land, in the city of Minneapolis, which is 1,661 feet long, east and west, and approximately 500 feet wide, lying immediately between the right of way of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway Company, on the north, and Twenty-eighth street on the south. The street is 80 feet wide its entire length, except where it abuts upon the tract mentioned, where it is but 40 feet in width. The city determined to widen, open and grade the street so that it would be 80 feet wide its entire length, and suitable for use. To that end,…