Case ID: minn_46/html/0330-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilfillan, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Minneapolis Mill Company vs. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company.
    June 11, 1891.
    Common-Law Dedication, to Railway Company. — A railroad corporation cannot take title to lands through a common-law dedication to public use. Following-Watson v. Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul By. Co., supra, p. 321.
    Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Hennepin county,. Lochren, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after judgment ordered for defendant.
    
      Flannery <& Cooke and Jackson & Atwater, for appellant.
    
      Albert F. Clarke and W. F. Booth, for respondent.
   Gilfillan, C. J.

So far as the defendant relies for a defence upon dedication of the real estate to public use, and the right of plaintiff to bringejeetment, the questions are disposed of by the opinion in Watson v. Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry. Co., supra, p. 321.

Order reversed.

Note. A motion for veargument of this case was denied July 1, 1891.