Minnesota Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota, Volume 44Review Publishing Company, 1891 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota. |
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36 Minn 41 Minn adverse possession agent agreement alleged amount answer Appeal by defendant application assessment assignment Bank bills of lading block cause of action certificate charge claim complaint contract conveyance conveyed corporation court of equity creditors damages debt deed defendant's delivery demurrer district court effect entitled equitable evidence executed fact feet fendant filed foreclosure granted held Hennepin county impleaded insolvent interest issue judgment jury land liability lien lumber matter McLeod county ment Milwaukee & St Minneapolis mortgage mortgagor N. W. Rep negligence notice November 14 Order affirmed owner paid parties Paul payment person plaintiff plat possession premises prior proceedings purchaser purpose question quitclaim deed railroad railway company Ramsey county reason receiver record recover respondent rule sold statute stockholders street sufficient taxes testimony thereof tiff tion tracks tract trial court trust verdict wheat
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Page 64 - Field, now a member of this court, that "the interest mentioned in the statute which entitles a person to intervene in a suit between other parties must be in the matter in litigation, and of such a direct and immediate character that the intervenor will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment...
Page 345 - ... in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any section or any part thereof granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same...
Page 101 - By the law of the land, is most clearly intended, the general law; a law, which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 234 - It is a settled doctrine of the law of agency in this state that where the principal has clothed his agent with power to do an act upon the existence of some extrinsic fact necessarily and peculiarly within the knowledge of the agent, and of the existence of which the act of executing the power is itself a representation, a third person dealing with such agent in entire good faith, pursuant to the apparent power, may rely upon the representation, and the principal is estopped from denying its truth...
Page 106 - ... the difference between the contract price and what it would have cost the plaintiff to manufacture and deliver the lumber according to the terms of the contract.
Page 346 - States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold or otherwise appropriated, or to which the right of preemption has attached as aforesaid; which lands (thus selected in lieu of those sold, and to which preemption rights have attached as aforesaid...
Page 535 - Defendant, however, invokes the familiar maxims, "that he who comes into equity must do so with clean hands," and that "a party cannot be heard to set up his own fraud as a ground for relief.
Page 336 - ... stations or station houses, or any change in its rates of fare for transporting freight or passengers, or any change in the mode of operating its road and conducting its business is reasonable and expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public...
Page 194 - ... duty of overcoming the presumption. And the distinction was shown there between instructions which were absolutely unlimited in their scope, and which might lead the jury to believe that even the proof of an accident caused by some agency which was not connected with the operation of the road would make a prima facie case of negligence on the part of the carrier, and an instruction which applied to accidents occurring by reason of something connected entirely with the operation of the road, citing...
Page 38 - If the capital stock of any such corporation shall be withdrawn, and refunded to the stockholders before the payment of all the debts of the corporation for which such stock would have been liable, the stockholders of such...