Besco v. Franken

Dell, Chief Justice.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $12,070 and she appeals from an order granting defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

On March 14, 1957, plaintiff was employed by the Mid-Continent Quilting Company at its plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Defendant *347Joseph Franken was the manager of that plant. In the afternoon of that day Mrs. Franken, also a defendant, drove her husband’s 1954 Chrysler automobile onto the plant’s premises and became mired in the mud. In response…