The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-09-18


pany for the condemnation of certain lands
III Redwood county, Minnesota, is on file in
the office of the Clerk of the District Court
in and Tor Redwood county, Minnesota
That said petition will be presented to the
district court OF said Redwood county on the
9th day OF October, / 9OI, atthe hour of 1890
O'Clock in the forenoon, in the court room in
the county court house at Redwood Falls,
Redwood county. Minnesota
That there is annexed hereto and made
part hereof a copy OF said petition; wherein
are stated the objects Of said petition and a
description OF the lands proposed 10 be
taken.
Dated August Goth. 1901.
MINNESOTA WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY,
BY BROWN. ABBOTT & SOMSEN,
and FRANK CLAGUE,
Sep -3w It's Attorneys.
To the District Court in and for the County
of Redwood and State OF Minnesota:
The petition of Minnesota Western Rail
way Company respectfully states anu shows
to the Court:
1. That your petitioner now is and tor
some time last past has been railroad
company, duly created organized and eX
listing under and by virtue of the laws of the
State of Minnesota, and duly authorized by
said laws to survey. locate. construct and
operate line of railway, with all necessary
and convenient side tracks, turnouts,swttch-
eS, telegraph lines, sites. grounds for deDOtS,
shops and other buildings, and other appur-
tenanCeS. from point on the line of Chicago
& Northwestern Railway Company at or
near Evan, in Brown county, Minnesota in
a westerly and nOrthwesterly direction
through Redwood county and into Lyon
county, distance of about fifty miles 10 a
point on the line of Chicago & Northwestern
Railway Company at or near Marshall, Lyon
county, Minnesota.
That your petitioner is duly vested with
all the powers and franchises in the preTi
ses conferred by the laws of said state, in
Guiding the right to acquire property through
the exercise Of eminent domain by CondeIn-
: said
rights of way. sites and grounds for depOts
shops and other buildings necessary for said
enterprise.
2. That the public interests require the
prosecution of said enterprise and the com
pletlon, maintenance and operation of said
line Of railway, with its appurtenanceS.
That petitioner is now engaged in the pros
eCutiOn thereof.
That the lands or real estate. and each
parcel thereof hereinafter described and
proposed to be taken and controlled by your
petitioner are required and necessary for
the purpose thereof.
g. That the proposed line of railway be-
gins on the line of the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway Company at or near the village
OF Evan. in PrairievilIe township. Brown
westerly and northwesterly direction to
point on the line Of the Chicago s. North
western Railway at or near the village of
Marshall Lyon county Minnesota
4. That a splat II map. showing and de
scribing with reasonable certainty and &C
curacy the center line of petitioners said
ty, as the same has been and is located and
determined. and the land to be taken for
said enterprise, was on August Sth, 1901,
duly filed in the Office of the Clerk of the
District Court of said Redwood county, Min
nesota, marked and designated as plat of
the center line of said railway, which plat
is now on file therein and may be referred
to for greater certainty, and WherefrOm
may be ascertained the beginning, end and
entire location of the center line of SAID
railway. as the same has been and is located,
SURVEYED ke0 n
neSOta.
5. That in and about the construction,
maintenance, use and operation of petition
er's said railway, stations, sidetracks,
switches, telegraph lines and other appur-
tenances and instrumentalities which are
necessary, proper and convenient therefor,
1T is necessary TOR your petitioner to apprO-
pirate to its own use and control. and 10 &C
quire complete right and title to the follow
ing described lands and real estate, living
and being in said county of Redwood that
is to say:
A strip of land of various widthsin no place
less than 100 feet in width, running over the
entire length of petitioners line Of railway
in and through said Redwood county. as the
same has been located and determined, said
either side of said center line. as shown by
the plat thereof above referred to.
g. Your petitioner further shows that the
parcels of land which it is necessary to take,
appropriate and use in and by this proceed
ing for the purpose of said enterprise and
which it has been and is unable to acquire
described as follows. which description sets
forth the name of each and. every owner,
tenant, lncumbrancer or person interested
in said lands or any part thereof. so far as
the same can be ascertained by, the public
records. by a view of the premises. or other
inquiry touching the use and occupation
thereof that is to say:
strip of land of and across the north
west quarter of the northeast quarter of
section twenty-six (26), township one hun
bred eleven Old north, range thirty-seven
(37o Or r. ma 81 RI
each side of and fifty feet distant from the
center line of said Minnesota Western Rail-
way, as the same has been surveyed, staked
out and located over and across said prem
1ses, and as appears from the plat of said
land attached to the original petition here
in, m arked Exhibit e. whereon said CEN
ter line is colored black and the land to be
taken aforesaid is colored yellow, which pc
t1tlon. together with said plat, is on file in
the office OF the clerk OF said court at
Redwood Falls. Redwood county, Minnesota
That b.. G. Comstock, an unmarried man,
is the owner of said described premises.
Wherefore your petitioner respectfully
prays for an order of this court, TO be re-
corded in its minutes. authorizing it to ac-
qulre and appropriate the property herein
before described. for the purposes hereinbe-
fore set forth, and appointing three compe-
tent. dlslnterested persons. residents OF said
county, commissioners to ascer-
tain and determine the amount by it to be
paid to such owners and each of them or.
persons interested, as compensation for his
or her damages by reason of the taking or
lnJar1ously Affecting any such lands. estates,
or interests. and specifying therein
the time and place for the first meeting of
such commissioners and fixing their COM
pensation
( Dated August 22d. 1901.
MARVIN HUGHITT,
president of Minnesota Western Railway
Company,
j. b. REDFIELD
secretary of Minnesota Western Railway
.nor,,,e, .n,,. Company.
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