Mississippi & Rum River Boom Co. v. Prince
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This is an appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, denying their motion for a new trial after a trial before Wilhin, J., and a jury, and verdict of $4,308.09 in their favor. A statement of the pleadings is contained in the report of the last preceding case, which was an appeal by the plaintiff from an order denying its motion for a new trial.
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This is an appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, denying their motion for a new trial after a trial before Wilhin, J., and a jury, and verdict of $4,308.09 in their favor. A statement of the pleadings is contained in the report of the last preceding case, which was an appeal by the plaintiff from an order denying its motion for a new trial. Defendants’ motion was made upon a bill of exceptions, from which it appears that on the trial there was evidence that plaintiff’s charges for boomage from 1879 for all logs turned over St. Anthony Falls were at the…
1Opinion of the Court
Vanderburgh, J.1
The principal questions in this case arise upon the construction of certain sections in the respective charters of the “Mississippi & Rum River Boom Company” and of the “Mississippi Boom Corporation.”
1. Sp. Laws 1867, c. 134, § 10, as amended by Sp. Laws 1877, c. 176, authorized the plaintiff boom company to maintain a boom or booms on the Mississippi river, from the head of Nicollet island, above the Falls of St. Anthony, to a certain point above, therein described, and authorized and required such corporation “to receive and take the entire control and management of all logs…
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