Legal Opinion

State v. Eisele

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided July 21, 1887PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Scott county, Macdonald, J., presiding, refusing a new trial, the defendant having been convicted of obstructing a public highway. „

1Opinion of the Court

Gilfillan, C. J.1

Indictment for a nuisance in obstructing a public street. The state, on the trial, claimed that the land over which the alleged street ran was dedicated by the owner, one Holmes, to-public use as a street, and that the dedication was accepted by user-on the part of the public. Defendant purchased the land* from the heirs of Holmes, and claimed that it never was dedicated as a street; and that was really the only issue at the trial, for on,the evidence there was no dispute that for several years the public used it as a street, nor is there any that defendant blocked it up by…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Marvin v. DutcherSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Riley v. BuchananCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1903
  2. Anderson v. BirkelandSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1949
  3. City of Indianapolis v. HigginsIndiana Supreme Court · 1895
  4. State v. MeyerNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1985
  5. Armstrong v. Johnson Storage & Moving Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1928

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