Ransier v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Bamsey County, Simons, J., presiding, refusing a new trial, after a verdict ■of $5,000 for plaintiff. The action was brought, under the statute, for damages for injuries causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate.
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
The decision upon a former appeal in this action is reported in 30 Minn. 215. The fatal injury for which this action was brought occurred while the deceased was in charge, as a conductor, of a freight train of the defendant, running from Minneapolis'to Albert Lea. The ease before us fairly presents these circumstances ■attending the accident, and the probable theory of its cause here suggested: The train consisted of a locomotive and a long train of freight cars,' with a caboose in the rear. The brake upon the second car forward of the caboose was defective; the ratchet, which is used in…
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