Village of Buffalo v. Harling
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, John H. Harling, from a judgment of the District Court of Wright County, Canty, J., entered January 11, 1892. This action was brought by the Village of Buffalo against Harling, claiming that a certain strip of land in the village, lying between Lake street and Buffalo Lake, had been dedicated to the public as a promenade, or park, and accepted, and that defendant was about to erect a blacksmith shop upon it.
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Appeal by defendant, John H. Harling, from a judgment of the District Court of Wright County, Canty, J., entered January 11, 1892. This action was brought by the Village of Buffalo against Harling, claiming that a certain strip of land in the village, lying between Lake street and Buffalo Lake, had been dedicated to the public as a promenade, or park, and accepted, and that defendant was about to erect a blacksmith shop upon it. Plaintiff demanded that he be enjoined from doing any act to interfere with the rights of the public therein. The answer denied the dedication. The case was tried on…
1Opinion of the CourtDiokinson, J.
The village of Buffalo is situated on the northerly side of Buffalo Lake. The land on which the village is situated we assume to have been in the year 1860 patented by the United States to one Jackson Taylor, the president of the town council, as he is described in the patent, and to his successors, “in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants of the town site of Buffalo,” ■under the town site act of congress of May 23, 1844. Along the ■shore of the lake, and between the water and that part of the village which appears to have been platted into blocks and lots, is a narrow…
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