Schurmeier v. St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff, claiming to be the owner of lots 11 and 12 in block 29, St. Paul, brought this action in the Ramsey County District Court to restrain the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, its agents and employees, from constructing and maintaining its railroad upon the street and levee in front oí said lots, and which separate them from the Mississippi River. . Issue was joined in the action, the said Company claiming the right to so construct and maintain such…
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The plaintiff, claiming to be the owner of lots 11 and 12 in block 29, St. Paul, brought this action in the Ramsey County District Court to restrain the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, its agents and employees, from constructing and maintaining its railroad upon the street and levee in front oí said lots, and which separate them from the Mississippi River. . Issue was joined in the action, the said Company claiming the right to so construct and maintain such railroad under and by virtue of the following statutes : 1. The act of Congress granting lands in alternate sections (sections…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court —
Wilson, G. J.
— The laws gqverning the surveys and descriptions of the public lands, to which it is necessary to refer in this case, are found in an act approved May 18, 1796, entitled “An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory north-west of the Ohio River, and above the mouth of the Kentucky River,” in an act approved May 10, 1800, amendatory of the aforesaid act, and in an act approved February 11, 1805, entitled “An act concerning-the mode of surveying the public lands of the United States.” By these acts it is provided that the public…
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