Redmond v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.

This action, originally ejectment, became one to determine the amount plaintiff was entitled to recover by reason of the appropriation, for railroad purposes, by defendant, of about 2 1-10 acres of land (a strip 43 feet in width and running through a tract of 120 acres) in which plaintiff had an undivided interest only. The defendant had acquired, by prescription, a strip 14 feet wide across the 120 acres, and the piece in controversy lay beside and upon the west of this 14 feet, upon which defendant had made its road-bed, laid its rails, and operated its trains for more than 20 years. An…