Rice v. Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court of the United States for the district of Minnesota. Edmund Rice brought trespass in the county court of Dakota, Territory of Minnesota, against the Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad Company, for cutting-timber on section 15 of township 114 north, of range 19 west.
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Error to the District Court of the United States for the district of Minnesota. Edmund Rice brought trespass in the county court of Dakota, Territory of Minnesota, against the Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad Company, for cutting-timber on section 15 of township 114 north, of range 19 west. The defendants answered that the title to the section of land described in the'plaintiff’s complaint was in them, and set forth their title as follows: The defendants were incorporated on the 4th of March, 1854, by the Legislative Assembly of Minnesota Territory, for the purpose of making a railroad from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This is a writ of error to the' District Court of the.United Stales for the district of Minnesota, bringing up the record of a suit transferred into that couri from the Supreme Couit of the Territory.
According to the transcript, the suit was commenced by the present plaintiff on the first day of November, 1856, in the District Court for the county of Dakota, before the Territory was admitted as a State. It was an action of trespass; and the complaint contained two counts, each describing a distinct tract of land as the close of the plaintiff. Both tracts, however, as described, comprised a…
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