State ex rel. Bass v. Macdonald
Supreme Court of Minnesota
On March 15, 1879, pursuant to due notice, a petition was presented to the respondent, as judge of the 8th district, praying that a legal highway might be laid out, located and opened through Carver and Scott counties, in that district, and extending into the county of Hennepin, in the 4th judicial district.
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On March 15, 1879, pursuant to due notice, a petition was presented to the respondent, as judge of the 8th district, praying that a legal highway might be laid out, located and opened through Carver and Scott counties, in that district, and extending into the county of Hennepin, in the 4th judicial district. After designating the initial point of the proposed road, in Carver county, and its route through that county and Scott county, the road is described as running “into the town of Eden Prairie in said county of Hennepin, to connect with and ending on the road leading northerly from the…
1Opinion of the CourtCornell, J.
By Gen. St. 1878, c. 13, § 76, it is provided as follows: “Whenever a petition praying that a road be laid through two or more counties in any judicial district in this state, signed by twenty legal voters, resident in said counties, shall be presented to the judge of the district court in said district, the said judge is hereby authorized to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to meet at such times and places as may be necessary, and to immediately proceed to lay out a road as directed by the judge, in accordance with the prayer of the petition: provided, that no road shall…
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