Allbright v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Crow Wing county by plaintiff as executor of the will of Loren E. Warren, deceased, to recover $350 for the conversion of certain deer and moose hides. The case was tried before McClenahan, J., who directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $197.12. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The plaintiff recovered a verdict against the defendant in an action brought for the value of certain deer and moose hides. From an order denying an alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, the defendant appealed.
On April 11, 1900, the plaintiff’s intestate, Loren E. Warren, delivered to the defendant railway company at Brainerd, Minnesota, three rolls or bundles of deer skins and moose hides, containing seventy hides, all of the value of $197.12, to be by defendant carried to Johnstown, in the state of New York, for the purpose of being tanned, and then…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Linden v. McCormickSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hanson v. StoreySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911