First Division of the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad v. Rice
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by the defendants Edmund Eice, Horace Thompson, John S. Kennedy and Jesse P. Farley, from an order of the district court for Eamsey county, Brill, J., presiding, overruling their demurrers to the complaint.
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Appeal by the defendants Edmund Eice, Horace Thompson, John S. Kennedy and Jesse P. Farley, from an order of the district court for Eamsey county, Brill, J., presiding, overruling their demurrers to the complaint. The complaint states, in substance, that' plaintiff is, and for more than twelve years last past has been, a railroad corporation, owning and entitled to the possession of the line of railroad extending from St. Anthony to Breckenridge, known as its Main Line, and the line of railroad extending from St. Paul by way of St. Anthony to Watab, known as its Branch Line and connecting…
1Opinion of the CourtCornell, J.
It appears from the complaint that the plaintiff is a railroad corporation, created and organized under the laws of this state, and invested with the usual franchises pertaining to such a corporation in respect to certain lines of railroad particularly described in the complaint, and extending through different counties and portions of the state. That at the time when the grievances complained of occurred, it owned and was in the actual and lawful possession of its said several lines of railroad, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging, and the rolling stock, equipment, including…
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