McGrath v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Washington county to recover $3,820 for property destroyed by fire while in the possession of defendant as a common carrier. The case was tried before Stolberg, J., who denied defendant’s motion to direct a verdict in its favor and a |nry which returned a verdict for $3,205.12. From an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtPhilip E. Brown, J.
Action to recover $3,820 for the loss by fire of a carload of horses numbering 16 and 8 sets of harnesses. The case was tried to a jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $3,205.12. The defendant appealed from an order denying a new trial.
The case comes here upon a bill of exceptions, which, according to the trial court’s certificate thereto, contains a complete record of all *260proceedings had, including all the evidence offered on the trial, “except that most of the evidence relative to the cause of the fire which (destroyed the carload of horses and responsibility therefor has been…
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- Southern Pac. Co. v. ArnettCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1901
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