State Ex Rel. Powderly v. Erickson

OTIS, Justice.

The subject of this protracted litigation is the proposed demolition of two historic row houses in Red Wing. In the first appeal, State, by Powderly v. Erickson, 285 N.W.2d 84 (Minn.1979), this court found that the row houses were an historical resource within the meaning of the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act (MERA), Minn.Stat. §§ 116B.01-.13 (1980), that defendants Erickson and Erickson Diversified Corporation (hereinafter Erickson) did not sustain their burden of rebutting plaintiff’s prima facie case, and that enjoining destruction of the row houses would not result in an…