Patton v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

Dell, Chief Justice.

Action for injuries sustained by plaintiff! when he was run over by a bus of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company in which he had been a passenger and from which he had alighted just prior to the accident. The jury returned a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for $52,500. This is an appeal from an order of the trial court denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

The action has been tried twice before. In the first trial there was a special verdict in which the jury, in answer to an interrogatory, found that plaintiff sustained…