City of Crookston v. Erickson

Christianson, Justice.

This case presents separate appeals by property owners from judgments entered pursuant to the jury’s award of damages in condemnation proceedings instituted by the city of Crookston. The land condemned is located just outside the southern limits of Crookston and was acquired as the site for a proposed new sewage treatment and disposal plant for that city. We are concerned here mainly with three parcels of land which for convenience will he referred to as tracts A, B, and C. 2

Tract A is heavily wooded land bounded on the west by the Bed Lake Biver and contains…