St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-09

CTATE OF MINNESOTA. RAMSEY COUNTY-IN
~ District Court Second Judicial District
In tile matter of the petition of The st. Paul. Min
neapols and Manitoba Railway Company to con-
denim certain lands for railroad purposes in
Ramsey county, Minnesota.
To the District Court of the Second Judicial Dis
trict of the State of Minnesota, in and for RAM
sey county.
The petition of The st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railway Company respectfully shows:
That it is railway corporation duly organized
created and existing under the laws of the State
of Minnesota.
That it has constructed and is now operating
and maintaining among other lines of railroad, a
line OF railroad between ST. Paul. in Ramsey coun-
ty, and Minneapolis, in Hennepin county, in this
state
That in order to properly maintain, use, enjoy
and operate its line Of railroad and particularly
that part thereof between st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis aforesaid, and in order to obtain to the
grounds of the State Agricultural society of the
State of Minnesota, situated on the southeast
quarter and the east half of the east half of the
southwest quarter of section twenty-one (21), in
township twenty-nine coy, of range twenty-three
(23), in said Ramsey county, it has become neces-
sary and convenient to construct, operate and
maintain spur track or tracks beginning at
point its said line of railroad between st. Paul
and Minneapolis aforesaid in the southwest quar-
ter of the northeast quarter of section
(2S), township twenty-nine (29), Of range twenty
three (23), in said Ramsey county and running
thence in northerly direction to a point in the
southwest quarter of section twenty-one (2),
township twepty-nine (29), of range twenty-three
(23), the line of which is distinctly marked and
staked out upon the ground over the entire route
of said spur track or tracks.
That in order to conduct said track or tracks and
the roadbed upon which the same shall be located
it will be necessary to acquire by condemnation
under the statute in such case made and provided
strip of land sixty feet wide. being thirty feet
each side of the centre line of said roadbed as the
same is now located and staked out for all neces-
sary roadways, spur and side tracks, rights OF
way, depot grounds. yards, grounds Tor machine
elevators ,deDOtS, houses
other structures that may be necessary or conve-
nient for the full enjoyment, use and operation of
its road as aforesaid, and across the follow
ing described land and premises situated in the
county of Ramsey and owned and encountered as
follows, to-wit; The south half OF the northwest
quarter of the northeast quarter OF section twenty
eight (2S), in township twenty-nine (29), OF range
twenty-three (23), of which William Brown, Jr, is
the owner.
The northerly two hundred (2OO) feet of the
southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of
ton twenty EIGHT (2S), township twenty-nne (29),
of range twentythree (23). of which, the st. Paul
and Northern Pacific Railroad Company is the
owner, together with the right TO construct such
spur track tracks grade over that part
thereof which the said st. Paul and Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company has appropriated and is
about to use for right of way.
Wherefore your petitioner prays Tor the appoint
ment of three competent disnterested persons,
residents of Ramsey county, as commissioners TO
assess the damages sustained by the owners of
and by other parties interested in the several
pieces of land above described, on account of the
taking and the injuriously affecting the same by
reason of the construction, maintenance and ope-
ration of the aforesaid track or tracks, and for
such other order relief in the premises your
petitioner may be entitled according to the statutes
in such behalf made and provided.
Dated May 90, 1885.
THE ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANI.
TOBA RAILWAY COMPANY,
[Seal. BY JAMES j. HILL, President.
EDw. SAWYER, Secretary.
r.. B. GALUsHA, Attorney for Petitioner.
The State of Minnesota to The ST. Paul and North
ern Pacific Railroad Company William Brown
Jr., Alexander P. Brown, and all persons having
any estate, right, title and interest in the prop
erty described in the foregoing petition:
You, and each of you, will take notice that the
said petition, of which copy is herewith served
upon you, will be presented to the District Court
of the Second Judicial District of the State OF Min
nesota at special term thereof TO be held at the
Court House in the City OF st. Paul, in Ramsey
county, on the 27th day OF June 1885, at 10 O'Clock
in the forenoon or soon thereafter as counsel
can be heard, and the petitioner, The st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company, will
then and there apply to said court Tor the appoints
ment of three commissioners to assess the damage
to the property therein described by reason of the
construction of the track or tracks in said petition
referred to and for such other and further relief
in the premises as may be just and equitable.
Dated May %, 1885
THE ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS AND MANI
TOBA RAILWAY COMPANY.
may26-3w-tue By X. s. GALusHA, Attorney.