MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY v. EMMONS

No. 240.

149 U.S. 364 (1893)

MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. EMMONS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Albert E. Clarke for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edward J. Hill for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff below, the defendant in error here, is a citizen of Minnesota, and for some years previously and at the commencement of this action was the owner of a farm in that State of one hundred and sixty acres, which he occupied with his family as a homestead. He enclosed the farm with a suitable fence, cultivated it, and kept stock upon it. In October, 1879, he sold and conveyed to the defendant, a railway...

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