State ex rel. Ketcham v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by the above named defendant and the Minneapolis & Pacific Ry. Co., from a judgment of the district court for Grant county, C. L. Brown, J., presiding, in a proceeding by mandamus, instituted by the relator as county attorney of that county, to compel the defendants to “provide ample facilities for transferring ears from their respective tracks,one to the other,” at a crossing of the tracks of the two companies at Elbow Lake in the same county.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Action of mandamus to compel the defendant railway companies to connect their respective lines of road at a place of crossing in Grant county. The defendants appeal from an order of the court-refusing a new trial, and from a judgment requiring them “to immediately provide ample facilities for transferring cars from their respective tracks, one to the other, at the crossing or intersection” specified. The proceeding is under the provisions of chapter 14, Laws 1887, generally known as the “Freedom of Traffic Law,” and was brought upon the relation of the county attorney of said county; it being…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State ex rel. Railroad & Warehouse Commission v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
- Moss v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1875
- Railway Transfer Co. v. Railroad & Warehouse CommissionSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
- Smith v. County of NoblesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887
3Cited by3 opinions
- State ex rel. County of Stearns v. KlasenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
- Beanstrom v. Northern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- State ex rel. Winona Motor Co. v. Minnesota Tax CommissionSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1912