Steenerson v. Fontaine
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Polk county to restrain defendants from further maintaining their obstructions and 'buildings upon certain property and from making any further obstructions thereon, which property was alleged to be a public highway.
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Action in the district court for Polk county to restrain defendants from further maintaining their obstructions and 'buildings upon certain property and from making any further obstructions thereon, which property was alleged to be a public highway. The complaint alleged that upon the railroad right of way adjacent to the property the railroad company maintained a depot for freight and passengers and side tracks,.and while the property was open to public travel and traffic plaintiff’s property was peculiarly valuable for carrying on certain classes of business wherein access to said depot and…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
In 1875 the proprietor platted the original town site of Crookston. In 1879 he deeded the east one hundred feet of lot 9 of block one to the plaintiff’s grantor. Subsequently he executed a warranty deed for a nominal consideration to the city of Crookston, “for road purposes and no other use,” to the forty feet off the west end, among others, of said lot. This forty feet, lying to the north of the corresponding strip in lot 8 and east of a right of way of a railway., is the premises here in dispute. In 1898 the city, without notice to the plaintiff, passed a resolution purporting to vacate…
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- Vanderburgh v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
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- People ex rel. Conlon v. MountIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
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