Steffenson v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, from an order of the district court, Mower county, Farmer, J., made August 15, 1891, refusing a new trial. The plaintiff, Soren Steffenson, was a section hand at work on August 13, 1888, for defendant under Charles Bush, the section foreman.
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Appeal by defendant, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, from an order of the district court, Mower county, Farmer, J., made August 15, 1891, refusing a new trial. The plaintiff, Soren Steffenson, was a section hand at work on August 13, 1888, for defendant under Charles Bush, the section foreman. While going east along the track upon the hand car with his foreman and the section crew, they saw an approaching train, and, in the endeavor to stop the hand car to get off the track with it, plaintiff was thrown forward, and had one bone of his right leg broken near the ankle, and a…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The only question presented or considered on the former appeal in this case — 45 Minn. 355, (47 N. W. Rep. 1068) — was whether the plaintiff, a section hand injured while riding on a hand car, was within, or protected, so to speak, by the coemployes’ act of 1887. It was there held that he was, and upon a second trial the verdict was against the defendant. The present appeal is from an order denying a new trial. The main facts were that plaintiff was *289on a hand car going easterly upon the railway, in the course of hie regular employment, with other sectionmen, eight in number, including their…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Lavallee v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Steffenson v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
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