City of Minneapolis v. Wilkin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
On the petition of the relator, Mary J. Wilkin, a writ of certiorari was issued' from this court, directed to the district court for Hen-nepin county. From the return to the writ, it appears that on May 4, 1882, the common council of the city of Minneapolis appointed commissioners to appraise and condemn so much of block 4 in Harmon’s addition to Minneapolis as lies between Hawthorne and Linden avenues and Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, for the purposes of a public park.
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On the petition of the relator, Mary J. Wilkin, a writ of certiorari was issued' from this court, directed to the district court for Hen-nepin county. From the return to the writ, it appears that on May 4, 1882, the common council of the city of Minneapolis appointed commissioners to appraise and condemn so much of block 4 in Harmon’s addition to Minneapolis as lies between Hawthorne and Linden avenues and Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, for the purposes of a public park. On June 21, 1882, the commissioners made their report to the common council, in which they awarded to relator $12,292.50…
1Opinion of the Court
Mitchell, J.*
Proceedings were instituted by the city of Minneapolis, under chapter 10 of the city charter, (Sp. Laws 1881, c. 76,) for the appropriation and condemnation of relator’s land for the purposes of a public park. The report of the commissioners appointed to assess her damages having been confirmed by the city council, she appealed to the district court, who, having confirmed the proceedings in other respects, appointed three disinterested freeholders, residents of the city, to reappraise her damages. Only two of these commissioners having appeared and qualified at the time and place…
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