In re Robbins
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Daniel M. Bobbins and the Northwestern Elevator Company, under Gen. St. 1878, c. 29, § 12, made application to the district court for Ramsey county to vacate certain portions of Vandalia and Central streets in “Hewitt’s Out-Lots” in Ramsey county, and asked the court to adjudge the title to the streets vacated to be in the Northwestern Elevator Company.
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Daniel M. Bobbins and the Northwestern Elevator Company, under Gen. St. 1878, c. 29, § 12, made application to the district court for Ramsey county to vacate certain portions of Vandalia and Central streets in “Hewitt’s Out-Lots” in Ramsey county, and asked the court to adjudge the title to the streets vacated to be in the Northwestern Elevator Company. On the hearing before Brill, J., it appeared that Vandalia street is eighty feet wide and lies wholly within “Hewitt’s Out-Lots,” and that Central street is forty feet wide and forms the eastern boundary of “Hewitt’s Out-Lots,” the adjoining…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
In the year 1880, a certain tract of land, described as the N. E. J of section 32, township 29, range 23, in Ramsey county, was surveyed, laid out, and platted by the proprietor into village lots, under the name of “Hewitt’s Out-lots.” The streets therein were laid out uniformly 80 feet in width, except Central street in question, which was laid out on the easterly margin of the tract, and was only 40 feet wide. The petition in this case embraced, an application, *101among other things, to vacate a portion of Central street. The petitioners have acquired, by grant from the original proprietor,…
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