New Dells Lumber Co. v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
New Dells Lumber Co. v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 7, 1937:
As appears from the opinion in the companion case filed herewith, New Dells Lumber Co. v. Chicago,
The basis of the denial of compensation by our former decision was that the plaintiff had with its conveyance to Kessler of his land in block 14 granted to him as appurtenant to that land an easement for switching service over the spur involved, which service the defendant was obligated to continue to render to Kessler, because service over the spur could not be discontinued without consent of the public service commission, and no such consent had been procured. The deed above referred to is the foundation of this case. It purports to reconvey from Kessler to the plaintiff the easement granted to him by the plaintiff and to release to the plaintiff the right to the service that the plaintiff by the grant of the easement was obligated to render to him. In the companion case we held this conveyance nugatory because a conveyance of an easement appurtenant to land cannot be conveyed without conveyance of the land itself, and that it was nugatory as a surrender of the easement because the right of Kessler to the service secured to him by that easement continued in him by statute after the purported surrender the same as before. The deed, therefore, did not operate to entitle the plaintiff to the compensation denied him by the former opinion in the
The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause remanded with directions to enter judgment dismissing the petition for condemnation. '
An opinion on motions for rehearing was filed in Case No. 106 on February 15, 1938, ante, p. 625, 277 N. W. 673.
The motions for rehearing were denied, with $25 costs of motion in Case No. 106 and without costs in Case No. 107.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- New Dells Lumber Company v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company, [Case No. 107.]
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- Published