Lindh v. Great Northern Railway Company
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Polk county, Watts, J., overruling a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The following facts are alleged in the complaint in this action.
The defendant and appellant, as a common carrier, undertook to transport a casket containing the body of the dead wife of plaintiff and respondent. In taking the casket through a named station, it became necessary to transfer the same to another of its trains. In so doing defendant carelessly and negligently left the same out of doors upon a railroad truck, and exposed it to rain, and wilfully ignored the request of the plaintiff to place the truck under cover, so that the rain might not get into the casket and injure and destroy…
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- Rich v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
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- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. WilsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
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