Harrington v. St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
These were four several actions, brought in the district court for Blue Earth county by Lyman C. Harrington, Sarah E. Comstock, Elizabeth Copp and Stella M. Davis, owners respectively of certain lots in the city of Mankato, fronting on certain public streets 'of said city.
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These were four several actions, brought in the district court for Blue Earth county by Lyman C. Harrington, Sarah E. Comstock, Elizabeth Copp and Stella M. Davis, owners respectively of certain lots in the city of Mankato, fronting on certain public streets 'of said city. The complaint in each case, after showing plaintiff’s ownership of the premises therein described and of the street in front of such premises to the center line of such street, alleges that in the fall of 1868, the defendant unlawfully entered upon that portion of plaintiff’s premises-included in such street, and began the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Ripley, Ch. J,
These cases were argued together, but questions arise in some which do not in all. We will dispose of the former first.
In the case of Comstock, the complaint alleges ownership in the plaintiff of block No. 11, in Yan Brunt’s addition to Mankato, having a frontage of two hundred and ninety-two feet on Yan Brunt street, over which defendant’s road .is constructed, as to which the answer denies any knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief.
At the trial plaintiff proved that, on the 25th January, 1868, the then owner conveyed said block to her in fee. A…
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- Williams v. . the New-York Central Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1857
- Craig v. . Rochester City Brighton R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1868
- Schurmeier v. St. Paul & Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1865
- Livingston v. LivingstonNew York Court of Chancery · 1822
- Gray v. First Division of the St. Paul & Pacific R. R.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1868
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