Schoch v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the Winona and St. Peter Bailroad Company, from a judgment of the District Court of Brown County, B. F. Webber, J., entered July 14, 1893, against it for $87.19. The plaintiff, Jacob L. Schoch, commenced this action February '21, 1893, in a Justice’s Court at New Ulm to recover $44 for his services as surgeon and physician in treating one Joe Woratchke, a servant of defendant, injured while in its service. He had judgment for $44 and costs.
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Appeal by defendant, the Winona and St. Peter Bailroad Company, from a judgment of the District Court of Brown County, B. F. Webber, J., entered July 14, 1893, against it for $87.19. The plaintiff, Jacob L. Schoch, commenced this action February '21, 1893, in a Justice’s Court at New Ulm to recover $44 for his services as surgeon and physician in treating one Joe Woratchke, a servant of defendant, injured while in its service. He had judgment for $44 and costs. Defendant appealed to the District Court on questions of both law and fact. It then moved the Court on notice and affidavits to…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
This action was brought and tried in Justice’s Court, in the county of Brown. The defendant appealed from the judgment to the District Court in that county, upon questions of both law and fact. It is admitted that the defendant’s railway runs through Brown county, and it has a station and a freight and ticket agent at New Ulm, in that county.
The case was properly tried in that county, and the District Court regularly acquired jurisdiction thereof upon the appeal. Thereupon, the defendant demanded that the place of trial be changed from the county of Brown to the county of Winona, on the…
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