Brakken v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action was brought in the district court for Freeborn county, and was tried before Farmer, J., and a jury, resulting in a verdict of $700 for plaintiff. The testimony in behalf of plaintiff as to the value of the house and lot ranged from $1000 to $1500. Defendant appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.
This suit was brought for consequential damages, alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, from the construction *42of the defendant’s railroad across a street upon which the plaintiffs residence was situated. The plaintiff’s lot fronted four rods on the street, and extended back seven rods. The street did not extend westward beyond the plaintiff’s property, but communicated on the east with the streets of the village of Albert Lea, and there was no means of access to his residence, except from the east over this street without passing over private property. The defendant, in the…
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