LaCombe v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

Matson, Justice.

Defendants in a wrongful-death action appeal from an entire order granting a new trial only on the issue of damages but otherwise denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

In the city of Minneapolis on February 17, 1949, about 2:30 p. m., decedent, George Springsteen, as a pedestrian pushing a cart before him, was crossing Washington avenue north from its west to its east side over the right-angle intersection of said avenue with Eighteenth avenue. While so crossing the intersection, he was struck by a streetcar of defendant Minneapolis…