Great Northern Railway Co. v. City of St. Paul
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action by Great Northern Railway Company and St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company in the district court for Ramsey county to enjoin defendant city and the other defendants, its contractors, from constructing a bridge in Broadway street in the city of St. Paul from Prince Street to and across the Mississippi River to West St. Paul.
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Action by Great Northern Railway Company and St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company in the district court for Ramsey county to enjoin defendant city and the other defendants, its contractors, from constructing a bridge in Broadway street in the city of St. Paul from Prince Street to and across the Mississippi River to West St. Paul. The case was tried without a jury before Brill, J., whose findings of fact, so far as material thereto, are referred to in the opinion. The court found as conclusions of law {1) that Broadway was a public street extending south of Water street, 80 feet…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
A voluminous record or paper book of nearly 1,000 pages, and the briefs of counsel containing over 200 pages, are presented for our examination. The case comes before the court upon an appeal from an order denying the plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial.
The plaintiffs are railway corporations created and organized under the laws of this state, and they commenced this action in the month of August, 1892, to restrain the defendants from constructing a bridge in Broadway street from Prince street to and across the Mississippi river to West St. Paul. The plaintiff the St. Paul, Minneapolis &…
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- Speir v. . Town of New UtrechtNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Parker v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- City of Noblesville v. Lake Erie & Western RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1891
- Village of Wayzata v. Great Northern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
- Gilbert v. EmersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Village of Newport v. TaylorSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1948
- Boise City v. HonIdaho Supreme Court · 1908
- Bryant v. GustafsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1950
- London & San Francisco Bank, Ltd. v. City of OaklandCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1898
- State ex rel. City of St. Paul v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
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