Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-18
RtgIst of Way Trespass Case.

On behalf of the Northern Pacific railroad
company bill of complaint was yesterday
Sled in the United States district court
for Minnesota, against the st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis d Manitoba railway company, the Barnes
Vile Moorhead railroad company, and James
j. Hill and Alpheus B. Stickney, as officers
and agents of the defendant companies. The
complaint sets up the ownership and title
of plaintiff in its right of way, four hundred
feet wide, and alleges that defendants
are about to forcibly enter upon the right of
way, on section 8, town 139, range IS, in
Clay county, between Moorhead and Glyndon,
for the purpose of building and operating
across the Northern Pacific right of way their
GAINESVILLE d Moorhe ad railroad, and that in
80 doing they will interrupt plaintiffs busi-
n ess disturb its rails. ties and other property,
and permanently increase the expense of op
Grating and maintaining its road. Wherefore
it is asked that the court issue its writ OF in
junction temporarily restraining defendants
from entering upon said right of way, and that,
pending 1.-THE hearing of the application. the
court issue its order that defendants shall re-
frain from proceeding with their purpose.
Notice of the application was served upon
defendants yesterday, accompanied by the
order of Judge Nelson, issued from chambers,
and addressed to James j. Hill, ordering that
defendants, their agents and servants shall re-.
frain until further orders of the court from
entering upon the Northern Pacific right of
way with their construction parties. The
hearing of the application is set for Saturday
of next week. The bill of complaint is signed
by Gilman & Clough, plaintiffs solicit ors, and
Endorsed by George Gray, j. M Gilman and
w. r. Clough, of counsel for plaintiff.
In railway aud legal circles it was
remarked last evening that this is
probably the beginning of a bitter legal
contest between the two companies; for that
the Northern Pacific company must have felt
that the st. Paul & Manitoba company had
been taking advantage of its occupation with
its unfinished main line, to lay hold upon q
large section of country naturally tributary to
the Northern Pacific and which the Northern
Pacific could easily have provided for by short
feeder roads whenever it was prepared to fully
develop its territory; and that, if it could
prevent it, the Northern Pacific company
would not at all allow the st. Paul d Manitoba
company to take up the whole Red River valley
as its plans contemplated The officers and
legal advisers of the companies. however
would only say that there were questions of
rights involved upon which the companies were
not agreed and which only the courts could
determine.
Elevator or grain house building along the
railroads is one of the evidences of immense
prod action of the country and increasing traf-
fic for the roads. A grain house, to be convert
ed into an elevator, is being built at Browns
valley on the Morris branch Of the st. P. d NJ.
road and the lumber is going forward for an
other one to be built at Graceville on the same
branch. large elevator is being built at
Dwight on the Breckenridge branch. On the
main line large elevator for way station)
lie being built at Litehfeld, and good sized
grain houses are being built at Tintah, Donnel-
" and Kirkhoven Several others are propos-
ed, some of which may yet be put up this fall.