City of St. Paul v. Minnesota Transfer Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for Ramsey county to recover $1,727.17 expended by plaintiff city in repair of a railroad bridge. The case was tried before Sanborn, J., who made findings and ordered judgment for the amount demanded. From an order denying its motion for amended findings or for a new trial and from the judgment, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
In this action the city of St. Paul recovered nearly $1,800 for repairs to that part of the Raymond avenue bridge spanning defendant’s tracks. The defendant appeals from the judgment entered upon findings of fact by the court.
The facts may be shortly stated as follows: The Great Northern Railway, the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, and the defendant, prior to 1898 each owned a right of way with tracks thereon, upon which railway trains were run along the depression now spanned by the bridge in question. No street had then been laid out…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- State ex rel. City of Duluth v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- State ex rel. City of St. Paul v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
- City of St. Paul v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1918
- State ex rel. City of St. Paul v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
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