Osborne v. Knife Falls Boom Corp.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiffs, who are owners of pine lands upon the St. Louis river and its tributaries above Knife Falls, brought this action in the district court for Carlton county, against the Knife Falls Boom Corporation and the St. Louis River Boom & Improvement Company, to restrain the defendants from hindering or delaying the passage of plaintiffs’ logs down the river, and to require the defendants to remove from the river their piers and structures erected therein, so as to give…
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The plaintiffs, who are owners of pine lands upon the St. Louis river and its tributaries above Knife Falls, brought this action in the district court for Carlton county, against the Knife Falls Boom Corporation and the St. Louis River Boom & Improvement Company, to restrain the defendants from hindering or delaying the passage of plaintiffs’ logs down the river, and to require the defendants to remove from the river their piers and structures erected therein, so as to give a free and unobstructed passage to the plaintiffs’ logs: or that the defendants be required to so alter and reconstruct…
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
Facts as follows are found by the court which tried this action below: The St.Louis river rises in this state and flows over 200 miles therein, forms the boundary between it and Wisconsin for about 20 miles, and then empties into Lake Superior. Upon it and its tributaries, and in the region drained thereby, lie extensive pine forests, large tracts of which, situate above the obstructions maintained by defendants in the river, as hereinafter stated, are owned by plaintiffs. This river furnishes the only practicable route by which the logs and lumber of these forests can be transported to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Pound v. TurckSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Cohn v. Wausau Boom Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1879
- Weaver v. Mississippi & Rum River Boom Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1881
- Black River Improvement Co. v. La Crosse Booming & Transportation Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
- Stevens Point Boom Co. v. ReillyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
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3Cited by18 opinions
- J. S. Keator Lumber Co. v. St. Croix Boom Corp.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
- Nelson v. DelongSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1942
- Harmon v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
- East Hoquiam Boom & Logging Co. v. NeesonWashington Supreme Court · 1898
- International Boom Co. v. Rainy Lake River Boom Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
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