In re the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This was a proceeding instituted in the district court for Hennepin county, to condemn for the petitioner a crossing at grade over the right of way and tracks of the respondent, the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company, at First street in the city of Minneapolis.
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This was a proceeding instituted in the district court for Hennepin county, to condemn for the petitioner a crossing at grade over the right of way and tracks of the respondent, the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company, at First street in the city of Minneapolis. The averment, in the petition, of the petitioner’s creation and existence as a corporation is as follows: “Tour petitioner, the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company, avers that on the first day of June, A. D. 1881, it was constituted a corporation for railway purposes, under the corporate name of the Minneapolis & St.…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis Bailway Company, a corporation created and existing under the laws of this state, had, in the year 1881, constructed and then owned, and was operating in pursuance of its charter, a line of railway from the city of Minneapolis to the southern boundary of the state, with its terminus on the west side of the Mississippi river, in the city of Minneapolis. It was also at the same time operating, in connection and continuous with its own line, the Minnesota & Iowa Southern Bailroad and the Fort Dodge & Fort Bidgely Bailroad, Iowa corporations, whose stock was nearly all…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- California Southern Railroad v. Southern Pacific RailroadCalifornia Supreme Court · 1885
- Clarke v. . BlackmarNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- In re Proceedings by the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Western Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1879
3Cited by4 opinions
- Morrison v. Indianapolis & Western Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1906
- Seattle & Montana Railway Co. v. StateWashington Supreme Court · 1893
- Winona & Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
- Island Creek R. R. v. Logan & Southern Ry. Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1911