State ex rel. Railroad & Warehouse Commission v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Alternative writ of mandamus issued from the district court for Otter Tail county commanding defendant to erect and maintain a station house at Bluffton on the line of defendant’s railway and to maintain an agent in charge thereof, as required by an order of the railroad and warehouse commission. The case was tried before Baxter and Searle, JJ., who made findings of fact and as conclusion of law found that relator was entitled to a peremptory writ.
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Alternative writ of mandamus issued from the district court for Otter Tail county commanding defendant to erect and maintain a station house at Bluffton on the line of defendant’s railway and to maintain an agent in charge thereof, as required by an order of the railroad and warehouse commission. The case was tried before Baxter and Searle, JJ., who made findings of fact and as conclusion of law found that relator was entitled to a peremptory writ. From a judgment entered pursuant to the findings, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLovely, J.
Mandamus, upon the petition of the State Railroad and Warehouse Commission, to compel the establishment of Bluffton Station, on defendant’s road. The order to locate the station was not complied with, and is now sought to be enforced in these proceedings. Upon the issue joined by defendant’s answer the cause was tried to the district court, who made findings of fact upon which the relief demanded was *279granted. Judgment was entered, from which the railway company appeals.
The material facts determinative of this appeal can hardly be said to be involved in dispute. In 1885 the defendant had…
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