Galland v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Polk county to recover $1,510 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Watts, J., who at the conclusion of the testimony directed a verdict in favor of defendant. Prom an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
1Per curiam
The appellant was engaged, with other employees of the respondent, in lifting steel rails and placing them upon a flat car, when one of them fell from the car and injured his leg. A number of old rails had been removed from the track and placed in piles upon the fight of way. On June 6, 1905, one of the freight trains stopped at one of these piles, and the appellant, with twelve other sectionmen, was directed by their foreman to place the rails upon a flat car. The men stood upon the ground alongside the flat car and lifted the rails from the ground to the car. It required the thirteen men to…
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- Stritzke v. Chicago Great Western RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1933
- Manore v. Kilgore-Peteler Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
- McCutcheon v. Virginia & Rainy Lake Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
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