Minnesota Reports (Volume 85) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Excerpt: ... R. Co. v. First Division St. P. & I R. Co., 20 Minn. 31, 49 N. W. 303, in which it was held that the government is bound by its land plats. As was said in State v. Milk (C. C.) 11 Fed. 389: ."Resolute good faith should characterize the conduct of states in their dealings with individuals, and there is no reason in morals or law that will exempt from the doctrine of estoppel;" a large number of cases being cited. Our conclusion is that the judgment appealed from should be, and hereby is, affirmed. LUMBERMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY and Others v. CITY OF ST. PAUL.1 January 17,1902. Nos. 12,704--(155). Eminent Domain--Sewer--Description. In condemnation proceedings in the city of St. Paul, the notice given and published by the board of public works under the provisions of Sp. Laws 1887, p. 335, 8, = conformed with the order of the common council directing such proceedings in the matter of a description of the property to be condemned. The condemnation was for sewer purposes, and after describing other tracts of land to be condemned for the same purposes, and therein definitely locating what was known as the "Phalen Creek Culvert," the notice proceeded as follows: "Also a strip thirty feet in width extending from the south end of said culvert to the north end of said culvert, the center line of which strip shall be the center line of said culvert." In the so-called assessment sheet or award of damages, and in the notice of confirmation of the award, the words, "the center line of which strip shall be the center line of said culvert," were omitted, but in the assessment sheet or formal award of damages it was recited that the assessment was in accordance with the order of the common council of said city approved August 15, 1892, which was the order upon which was predicated the notice of...