State Supreme Court / Minn.

State Ex Rel. Foster v. Naftalin

Decided January 20, 1956. William P. Murphy wrote the opinion for the court.

246 Minn. 181 · Cited 69 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Bull v. King · 286 N.W. 311
Freeman v. Goff · 287 N.W. 238
People ex rel. Lockwood Honore v. Olsen · 222 Ill. 117
State ex rel. Attorney General v. Platt · 2 S.C. 150
State v. Minnesota Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · 15 N.W.2d 568
State Ex Rel. Grozbach v. Common School District No. 65 · 237 Minn. 150
People ex rel. Brady v. LaSalle Street Trust & Savings Bank · 269 Ill. 518
State Ex Rel. Board of Commissioners v. Wright · 163 P.2d 190
State ex rel. Williams v. Robb · 163 Kan. 502
State Ex Rel. Finnegan v. Burt · 29 N.W.2d 655
Mayor of West End v. Simmons · 165 Ala. 359
Cancilla v. Gehlhar · 27 P.2d 179
Smith v. Allwright · 321 U.S. 649
Union Pacific Railroad v. Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad · 199 U.S. 160
Johnson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad · 243 Minn. 58
Carlton v. Grimes · 23 N.W.2d 883
King Lumber Co. v. Crow · 155 Ala. 504
Trustees of Hamline University v. Peacock · 14 N.W.2d 773
McAuliffe v. O'Connell · 258 Ill. 186

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