County of Nobles v. Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Proceeding in the district court for Nobles county, for the collection of taxes for the year 1876, assessed on certain lands of defendant in that county. The defendant interposed an answer, alleging that the lands were not subject to taxation.
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Proceeding in the district court for Nobles county, for the collection of taxes for the year 1876, assessed on certain lands of defendant in that county. The defendant interposed an answer, alleging that the lands were not subject to taxation. It appearing that the defendant had paid into the state treasury the per centum of its gross earnings required by the legislation stated in the opinion, the court, Dickinson, J., presiding, held that the lands were exempt from taxation, and ordered judgment discharging them from the taxes in question; and thereafter, at the request of the county…
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
The act of May 22, 1857, of the legislative assembly of the territory of Minnesota, authorized the *295Root River Yalley & Southern Minnesota Railroad Company (afterwards the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company) to-construct two lines of railroad, both described in the land-grant act of congress, of March 3, 1857, — one of them being that from St. Paul, and from St. Anthony via Minneapolis, to a convenient point of junction; west of the Mississippi, and thence to the southern boundary of the state, in the direction of the mouth of the Big Sioux river, — and disposed of. and conferred to and upon…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- First Division of the St. Paul & Pacific Rail Road v. ParcherSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1869
3Cited by5 opinions
- State v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- County of Stevens v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1887
- County of Traverse v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1898
- Chauncey v. WassSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885
- County of Traverse v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1898