Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Spencer v. Ensign

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 14, 1893No. 8402PublishedCited by 17 opinions

A writ of Certiorari was issued August SO, 1893, by this Court on tbe relation of Herbert B. Spencer, Acting Mayor of tbe City of Duluth to Josiah D. Ensign, one of the Judges of tbe District Court of St. Louis County, and to Henry Truelson, James Farrell and Nils Nelson, composing tbe Board of Public Works of tbe City of Du-lutb, requiring tbem to certify and return to tbis Court on or before October 3, 1893, tbe record and proceedings in an assessment of |28,870.95 made…

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A writ of Certiorari was issued August SO, 1893, by this Court on tbe relation of Herbert B. Spencer, Acting Mayor of tbe City of Duluth to Josiah D. Ensign, one of the Judges of tbe District Court of St. Louis County, and to Henry Truelson, James Farrell and Nils Nelson, composing tbe Board of Public Works of tbe City of Du-lutb, requiring tbem to certify and return to tbis Court on or before October 3, 1893, tbe record and proceedings in an assessment of |28,870.95 made upon certain real estate in that City, said to be specially benefitted by tbe acquirement of certain other adjacent real…

1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.

Sp. Laws 1889, ch. 401, created a corporation styled the “Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Duluth," vesting it with powder to establish a system of public parks and parkways for that city. Sp. Laws 1891, ch. 54, amended that act so as to establish a department of the government of that city named the “Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Duluth,” consisting of five commissioners, of whom the mayor of the city is to be ex officio one, the others to be appointed by him, with the advice and consent of the Judges of the District Court for the county of St. Louis residing in that…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State ex rel. Merrick v. District Court of Hennepin CountySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. In re Westlake AvenueWashington Supreme Court · 1905
  2. State ex rel. Young v. BrillSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
  3. Brazil v. County of SibleySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1918
  4. State ex rel. Jonason v. CrosbySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
  5. In re Dexter-Greenfield Drainage Dist.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1915

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