Legal Opinion

Stillwater & St. Paul Railroad v. City of Stillwater

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 9, 1896No. Nos. 10,003-(23)PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the district court for Washington county in favor of defendant, entered in pursuance of the order of Williston, J.

1Opinion of the Court

START, C. J.2

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment for the defendant, ordered on the pleadings, upon the ground that *177the alleged causes of action in the complaint were barred by the statute of limitations.

The complaint alleged as a first cause of action that the defendant, in proceedings to lay out and open a certain public street, duly took for that purpose certain tracts of land owned by the plaintiff, and the sum of $2,300 was awarded to it as damages for such taking, which sum was on May 2, 1882, duly appropriated and set apart in the treasury of the defendant for the…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Speidel v. HenriciSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  2. Parks v. SatterthwaiteIndiana Supreme Court · 1892
  3. Hayward v. GunnIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
  4. Nourse v. Prime, Ward & SandsNew York Court of Chancery · 1823
  5. Harlow v. DehonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Knox v. KnoxSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1946
  2. Harold L. Warner v. First National Bank of MinneapolisCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1956
  3. Ott v. BoringWisconsin Supreme Court · 1907
  4. Weston v. JonesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1924
  5. Ganser v. GanserSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901

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