Stevens v. Town of Sandnes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal to the district court for Yellow Medicine county from an order of the town board of defendant denying a petition to lay out a certain proposed road. The case was tried before Powers, J., and a jury which rendered a verdict in favor of the petitioners. Prom an order overruling defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Start, O. J.
The respondents herein, with others, petitioned the supervisors of the appellant town to lay out a public highway on a line running east and west through the center of section 8. The petition was denied, and an appeal taken from the order refusing to lay the road to the district court of the county of Yellow Medicine. On the trial in the district court with a jury, the town moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the notice thereof was not sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the court. Motion was denied, and the trial proceeded, resulting in the verdict that the highway…
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