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2 Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 ; Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 ; O’Brien v. City of St.

Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 ; Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 ; O’Brien v. City of St.

Bank v. Strait, 71 Minn. 69 , ; Valerius v. Richard, 57 Minn. 443 , ; Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 .

t through Mitchell, J. said: “A motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict is contrary to law is somewhat in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence; that is, conceding all that the evidence tends to prove, the verdict is not supported by the principles of law applicable to the facts.” This is in harmony with the language of the court in the early ease of Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 , where it is said, “in considering the question whether it is contrary to law we must

In Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 , it was held that a municipality might exercise its judgment in establishing the first or original grade of a street under its direction and control, and that it might, without being responsible in damages to • abutting property owners, reduce a street to the grade so established.

Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 ; Alden v. Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 .

Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 ; Henderson v. City of Minneapolis, 32 Minn. 319 , ; 2 Dillon, Mun.

Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 ; Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 ; Henderson v. City of Minneapolis, 32 Minn. 319 , ( ;) Yanish v. City of St.

Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 ; Alden v. Same, 24 Minn. 254 .

Instances of the application of that rule are furnished by Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 , where the power exercised was establishing the grade of a street under the charter, and Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 , where the city had established a system of grades for streets and sidewalks, and drains, gutters, catch-basins, and sewers, and had constructed the streets, sidewalks, drains, and gutters, and partially completed the sewers.

863 ;) Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254, 262 .

Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254, 262 ; O'Brien v. City of St.

To the extent of denying a right of recovery for consequential injuries from an original establishment of grade, this court has recognized the law to be as here declared, in Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 ; Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 ; and O’Brien v. City of St.

In Lee v. City of Minneapolis, 22 Minn. 13 , there was no accumulating of surface water, but, as a consequence of raising the grade of a street, the rain-water falling upon it spread into the lot of the plaintiff; and in Alden v. City of Minneapolis, 24 Minn. 254 , the street grades did not turn upon the plaintiff’s premises any greater quantity of water than, in the natural condition of the surface, would have settled there; and the only question was, whether a mu-ncipal corporation is liable f