Rippe v. Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The defendant instituted proceedings to condemn, for the purposes of its railway, certain lots of plaintiff on the Mississippi river, on one of which was a wheat-warehouse. The plaintiff appealed from the award of the commissioners to the district court for Houston county, where a trial was had before Page, J., and a verdict rendered for an amount larger than that awarded by the commissioners. A new trial was refused, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCornell, J.
None of the proceedings herein, prior to the report of the commissioners, are contained in the return and ¡Riper-book now before us ; but, as this case has heretofore been before this court on an appeal from an order dismissing the petition and subsequent proceedings, it is competent and proper to refer to the return then made, and now on file, for the purpose of ascertaining the character of the petition and order -which constitute the foundation of these proceedings. By such reference it is ascertained that the company, claiming to be a railroad corporation organized under the general laws…
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