Hughley v. City of Wabasha
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Wabasha county, Snow, J., granting defendant’s motion for a new trial, after a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for $3,500, .on a trial before Gould, J.
1Opinion of the Court
MITCHELL, 3.
This was an action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant. The defendant owned and operated a cable ferry across the Mississippi river. The plaintiff was employed to assist in freeing the ferryboat from the ice which hemmed it in on the Minnesota shore, and was directed by those in charge of the work on behalf of the city to go out upon the ice on the upper side of the boat, and break it into pieces with a pike pole, and push the pieces around the outer end of the boat into the channel of the river, and thus relieve the pressure…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Christianson v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
- Wood v. CullenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1868
- Reynolds v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Koktan v. KnightSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
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- School District No. 1, Itasca County v. AitonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1928
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