Peck v. Superior Short Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Condemnation proceedings. On the trial of the plaintiffs’ (landowners’) appeal from the award in the district court for St. Louis county, before Stearns, J., the jury found specially that the value of the “lots” mentioned in the opinion was $1,500, and returned a general verdict for plaintiffs, assessing their damages at $5,000. The defendant appeals from an order directing that judgment for $5,000, -with interest, etc., be entered in favor of plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
Bespondents own a tract of land of several acres in area, at Duluth, part of which they occupy and use as the site of a steam saw-mill, and the remainder as piling ground for lumber there manufactured. They also own three contiguous town lots, separated *344from this tract by a street. These three lots the appellant railway company seeks to condemn, and, in the course of the trial in condemnation proceedings, the respondents claimed that the lots and the tract mentioned were one property or plant, and that, therefore, they were entitled to receive not only the value of the lots considered by…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Wilcox v. St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
- Welch v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1870
- Blake v. Winona & St. Peter RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872
- Chapman v. Oshkosh & Mississippi River RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
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- City of Tampa v. Texas CompanyDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1958
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