Langford v. County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Two of the commissioners named in, the act of the legislature entitled “An act to locate and establish a state road from tbe city of St Paul, in the county of Ramsey, to the city of St. Anthony, in the county of Hennepin,” approved March 7, 1870, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, located and established said road across the lands of the plaintiffs.
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Two of the commissioners named in, the act of the legislature entitled “An act to locate and establish a state road from tbe city of St Paul, in the county of Ramsey, to the city of St. Anthony, in the county of Hennepin,” approved March 7, 1870, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, located and established said road across the lands of the plaintiffs. This action was brought in the district court for Ramsey county to vacate the proceedings in regard to the same and enjoin the defendants from opening or keeping-open said road. The defendants demurred to the complaint on the ground that…
1Opinion of the Court
*377 By the Court
McMillan, J.
The act of the legislature involved in this case appoints three persons named therein commissioners to locate, survey and establish a state road between certain points, specified in the act, and authorizes the said commissioners, or a majority of them, to meet as therein provided, and proceed to the discharge of the duties imposed on them by the act.
It also provides that they shall file a certified plat of the survey of said road in the office of the county auditor of each of the counties specified therein, which plat shall be legal evidence of the location and…
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