Southern Minnesota Railroad v. Stoddard
Supreme Court of Minnesota
APPEAL EEOM THE DISTEIOT COUET OE HOUSTOW OOUNTY. The above named Respondent brought this action in the District Court for Houston County, to restrain the Appellant by injunction, from building and operating a railroad across his lands lying situate in Township No. 104, N. of R. 4 "W.,in county of Houston, which lands are described in complaint as follows, to wit: S.E. quarter of sec. 22, and "W. half of N. E. quarter of the same section, town and range aforesaid, except…
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APPEAL EEOM THE DISTEIOT COUET OE HOUSTOW OOUNTY. The above named Respondent brought this action in the District Court for Houston County, to restrain the Appellant by injunction, from building and operating a railroad across his lands lying situate in Township No. 104, N. of R. 4 "W.,in county of Houston, which lands are described in complaint as follows, to wit: S.E. quarter of sec. 22, and "W. half of N. E. quarter of the same section, town and range aforesaid, except twenty acres out of the N.E. corner of last-mentioned tract. It is alleged in the complaint, that before and at the time of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court —
Flandrau, J.
— The District Courts of this State are courts of general jurisdiction, and may entertain all *157cases, jurisdiction over which, is not conferred upon some other courts by the constitution or some statute of the State. The case of Castner & Hinkley vs. Chandler & Green, 2 M. R., 86, was decided under the Territorial government, and is not authority since the State organization. See Agin vs. Heyward, ante, p. 110.
The Defendant by its charter was authorized to “survey, locate, construct, maintain, use and operate, and at their pleasure to alter the line thereof without…
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