Keenan v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $2,000 lor personal injuries. The reply was a general denial. The case was tried before Kelly, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $1,550. From an order denying defendant’s •alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On Saturday, April 30, 1910, and for some time prior thereto, xthe plaintiff was employed as a car repairer of the Chicago, Mil*108waukee & St. Paul Railway Company at its shops in its yards at South Minneapolis. The yards were large, over which some one hundred' railway tracks were laid, which practically surrounded the shops.. There were employed in the shops and yards some two thousand men. Those employed in the shops were accustomed to quit work on Saturday afternoons at 4:30 o’clock, and in going to their homes it was necessary for them to cross many of the tracks and oftentimes to-walk…
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- Zimmerman v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1915