Forsythe v. Murnane
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Clay county against Great Northern Railway Company to recover a reward of $5,000. Upon motion of plaintiff the court ordered various claimants to be made parties defendant. Thereafter Mark Madigan and C. B. Battan filed complaints in intervention, each demanding judgment for the full sum of $5,000, and that the other- parties to the action had no share or right in and to the amount of the reward.
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Action in the district court for Clay county against Great Northern Railway Company to recover a reward of $5,000. Upon motion of plaintiff the court ordered various claimants to be made parties defendant. Thereafter Mark Madigan and C. B. Battan filed complaints in intervention, each demanding judgment for the full sum of $5,000, and that the other- parties to the action had no share or right in and to the amount of the reward. Pursuant to stipulation in open court the defendant railway company paid the sum of $5,000 into court, and the court dismissed the action as to the company. The case…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On September 12, 1907, at Rondo, Montana, the railway train of the Great Northern Railway Company, which included express and mail cars, was held up and robbed of $10,000. The robbery was committed by George Frankhouser, alias Ed. Smith, alias Joe King, and others. Thereupon the railway company offered a reward for the arrest and conviction of each of the robbers, and agreed to pay $5,000 for the arrest of each of them, if such arrest was followed by a conviction. Thereafter the plaintiff arrested Frankhouser within- this state, who had been indicted for the crime in the District Court of the…
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