State Ex Rel. Benson v. Erickson

Loring, j.

This is an appeal by the state from a judgment in favor of the respondent Margaret Squires in a proceeding to condemn property for highway purposes. The state filed its petition in the district court of Beltrami county for the condemnation of a right of way for trunk highway No. 4 over certain lands in that county. The respondent had no interest in the land over which an easement was sought in the condemnation proceedings, but she claimed that certain lots belonging to her in the village of Blackduck were injuriously affected by the rerouting of the trunk highway, which involved a…