Volume 241 — Minnesota Reports

<bold>Workmen's compensation — proceedings for compensation —</bold> <bold>review — findings of industrial commission</bold>. <block_quote> In a proceeding under the workmen's compensation act, if the conclusion of the commission is supported by sufficient competent evidence, it will not be disturbed for the reason that incompetent evidence may have been received.</block_quote>

<bold>Mines and minerals — rights of surface landowner to subjacent</bold> <bold>support — effect of knowledge of subsidence</bold>. <block_quote> In an action to recover damages to land and a building erected thereon on account of subsidence of the surface due to underground mining, allegations that plaintiff knew or should have known that subsidence had occurred as a result of such mining is good as against a demurrer interposed on the ground that the answer does not state a defense.</block_quote>

<bold>Habeas corpus, writ of — time of issuance</bold>. <block_quote> 1. An inmate of our state penitentiary is not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus upon his application based on the alleged error in imposing too severe a sentence under M.S.A. 610.29 until he has served at least the minimum sentence for the crime of which he has been convicted where there is no showing of any invalidity in the conviction itself.</block_quote> <bold>Constitutional law — double jeopardy — second-felony statute</bold>. <block_quote> 2. Section 610.29, providing for a more severe sentence where a person convicted of a felony has been convicted of former felonies, is constitutional against a claim that it places the convicted person in double jeopardy for such former offenses.</block_quote> <bold>Criminal law — conviction of second felony — statute — prior</bold> <bold>conviction for felony in another state</bold>. <block_quote> 3. In imposing sentence under § 610.29, the court may consider felonies committed in other jurisdictions.</block_quote>