Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Cottonwood: county, against the county auditor, treasurer, and board of commissioners, to restrain the assessment, levy, and enforcement of t'axes-against a large quantity of land in that county forming part of plaintiff’s land grant.
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Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Cottonwood: county, against the county auditor, treasurer, and board of commissioners, to restrain the assessment, levy, and enforcement of t'axes-against a large quantity of land in that county forming part of plaintiff’s land grant. The action was tried by Perkins, J., who ordered judgment for defendants, on the grounds (1) that the execution and delivery of the trust-deed considered in the opinion constituted a. sale and conveyance of all the lands embraced therein, within the-meaning of Laws 1865, c. 15, § 5; and (2) that if the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The lands involved in this litigation are among those granted by the general government in the year 1857, in trust to the then territory of Minnesota, to aid in the construction of a specified line of railway, and thereafter transferred to the plaintiff’s predecessor, the St. Paul & Sioux City Eailroad Company, in execution of the trust. As originally held, and prior to a transaction which included the execution of an instrument styled a “trust-deed” by the plaintiff, these lands were wholly exempt from taxation. In 1869 plaintiff, authorized so to do by chapter 50, Special Laws of that year,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885
- St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
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- County of Chippewa v. St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890