State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.

For the sake of brevity we will, in this opinion, designate these two railroad corporations as the St. Louis Company and the Manitoba Company, respectively. This mandamus proceeding was originally commenced against the St. Louis Company, to compel that corporation to construct bridges upon WasBington avenue, Third, Fourth, and Fifth streets north, in the city of Minneapolis, above its railroad tracks, which, running easterly and westerly, now cross those streets upon the same level as the streets themselves. The work proposed also included the construction of approaches to the southerly ends…