Babcock v. Canadian Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Eleven actions 1 in the district court for Polk county against the Canadian Northern [Railway Company to recover for damages to property caused by fire set by defendant’s locomotive.
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Eleven actions 1 in the district court for Polk county against the Canadian Northern [Railway Company to recover for damages to property caused by fire set by defendant’s locomotive. The substance of the pleadings will be found on pages 439, 440 and 442. The cases were tried before Watts, J., and one jury, under an agreement that they were to be tried as separate cases, and a separate verdict rendered in each case, and that each case was to stand independently of the others upon all of the evidence applicable to that case. At the close of the trial defendant’s motion in each case for a…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilip E. Brown, J.
These eleven actions were brought to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiffs in consequence of a fire claimed to have been set by one of the defendant’s locomotives on September 29, 1910. The cases were tried before one jury under stipulation that they should be tried as separate cases, all evidence admissible as to any one of them to be received and by the jury applied to the case to which it was applicable, and separate verdicts to be rendered. Plaintiffs had verdicts in all of the actions, motions were made in the alternative for judgment notwithstanding the verdict…
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2Cases cited11 opinions
- Karsen v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1881
- Red River & Lake of the Woods Railroad v. StureSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
- Lindsay v. Winona & St. Peter RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1882
- Minneapolis Sash & Door Co. v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
- Hansen Mercantile Co. v. Wyman, Partridge & Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Anderson v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. v. McCowan Et Ux.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1945
- Pettit Grain & Potato Co. v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1948
- Peterson v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 1990
- Behrens v. KruseSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
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