Evans v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Clay county to recover $1,500 for the alleged wrongful obstruction of Buffalo river by defendant’s embankment and for failing to place suitable culverts for the purpose of draining surface water from plaintiff’s land.
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Action in the district court for Clay county to recover $1,500 for the alleged wrongful obstruction of Buffalo river by defendant’s embankment and for failing to place suitable culverts for the purpose of draining surface water from plaintiff’s land. The amended answer denied any knowledge as to plaintiff’s possession of any portion of the premises described in the complaint, but alleged that defendant owned two strips of land across them • one being two hundred feet wide and the other four hundred feet wide, which was formerly occupied by defendant’s main line but now used by a spur track;…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Plaintiff was the owner of the northwest quarter of section 12, in township 139, of range 46, in Clay county, which adjoined a tract of four hundred eighty acres owned by his father, and the whole was used and occupied as one farm. Buffalo river, a small stream, flowed from a southeasterly direction toward the northwest, passing over the land immediately south of plaintiff’s tract, which was owned by his father, crossing the south line of plaintiff’s land some distance from the southeast corner thereof running thence on a curve or bend in a westerly direction about five hundred feet, when it…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Kramer v. GardnerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- Jungblum v. Minneapolis, New Ulm & Southwestern RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
- Guilder v. Town of OtsegoSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1873
- Bruns v. SchreiberSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- McCarty v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Heath v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Poynter v. County of Otter TailSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1947
- Peterson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
- Eiken v. Minnesota & Manitoba RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
- Virginia & Rainy Lake Co. v. HelmerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1918
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