136 Minn. 164 | Minn. | 1917
Fourth street southeast in Minneapolis is crossed by defendant’s tracks at Fifteenth avenue southeast. Some years ago the defendant
Embankments or structures necessary as approaches to a bridge to carry a street over a railway are as much a part of the work to he done by the company as the bridge itself. They must be erected and maintained at the expense of the railroad company. State v. St. Paul, M. & M. Ry. Co. 35 Minn. 131, 28 N. W. 3, 59 Am. Rep. 313; Board of Co. Commrs. of Goodhue County v. Duluth, R. W. & S. R. Co. 67 Minn. 213, 217, 69 N. W. 898; Baltimore & O. S. W. R. Co. v. State, 159 Ind. 510, 520, 65 N. E. 508; City of Bloomington v. Illinois Cent. R. Co. 154 Ill. 539, 544, 39 N. E. 478; Whitcher v. Somerville, 138 Mass. 454; Commonwealth v. Inhabitants of Deerfield, 6 Allen (Mass.) 449, 455.
Judgment reversed.