Liimatainen v. St. Louis River Dam & Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $900 damages to plaintiff’s land alleged to have been caused through defendant’s negligent operation of its dam. The answer denied the allegations of the complaint and set up that the action was barred by-a former judgment in a similar action between the same parties. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $900 damages to plaintiff’s land alleged to have been caused through defendant’s negligent operation of its dam. The answer denied the allegations of the complaint and set up that the action was barred by-a former judgment in a similar action between the same parties. The facts are stated in the opinion. The case was tried before Dancer, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $500. From an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtPhilip E. Brown, J.
In order that the questions involved in this case may be understood, it is necessary to set out the controlling facts alleged in considerable detail, and also to follow closely the phraseology of the two complaints hereinafter referred to. These facts are as follows:
In September, 1909, the plaintiff brought an action against the defendant, the allegations of the complaint fthed therein being, substantially, that for a long time prior to and likewise since January, 1909, he had been in possession of a certain described eighty acres of land in St. Louis county, occupied by him as a homestead,…
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