Bailey v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.

1 Reported in 207 N.W. 26, 560. Two actions for wrongful death, tried together with a verdict for plaintiff in each case. Defendant appeals from the order denying its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

The two deceased, Leonard Le Roy Bailey and Stanley Ray La Forge, were riding in an open Ford truck when it was struck by defendant's passenger train at a highway crossing in Cloverton, Minnesota. Main street runs through the village east and west and defendant's main line north and south. They intersect at approximately right angles. North of the…