Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. City of Minneapolis

A reargument was ordered because of doubts arising as to the correctness of the decision holding that the damages awarded for the taking of a strip of ground for a street could not be offset or paid by the special benefits the remaining tract received from the improvement, insofar as the same included opening and grading.

McKusick v. City of Stillwater was held applicable and controlling. It is true, in the syllabus and opinion of that case, the charter provision there in question, which permitted an offset of benefits for grading against damages for taking plaintiff's property for the slopes…