La Londe v. Peake
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Polk county to recover $1,000 damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Watts, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $100. From a judgment entered pursuant to the verdict, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Defendants were separate owners of adjoining lots at the corner of Main and Boberts streets, in the city of Crookston. A frame building had been moved from one of these lots into the street, where it remained at the time of the accident hereinafter *125mentioned, and the defendants were jointly engaged in excavating a cellar fifty by one hundred feet in size, covering both lots. From the bottom of the cellar, and inclining upward until it reached the surface, about twelve feet out into the street, a driveway had been dug for the purpose of furnishing a passage for teams loaded with material taken…
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