Legal Opinion
Stemper v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided May 28, 1926No. 25,216PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
Action for personal injuries and a verdict for plaintiff. Defendant appealed from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment non obstante or a new trial.
Plaintiff was the engineer on one of defendant’s passenger trains which ran from Dubuque, Iowa, to Savannah, Illinois. On February 21, 1923, he left Dubuque on his usual run under what is termed a permissive order which warned him to proceed “expecting to find a train in the block between this station and Gordon’s Ferry,” a station about 13 miles from Dubuque. As he was coming into Gordon’s Ferry, his train ran into the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad v. CampbellSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Slater v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. McWhorterCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1924
3Cited by6 opinions
- Larsen v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1928
- Meisenhelder v. ByramSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1930
- Collins v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1930
- Duryea v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1935
- Meisenhelder v. ByramSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1929
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