O'Niel v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for Polk county to recover $5,000 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Watts, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $850. The court made an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, but granting a new trial unless plaintiff consent to a reduction of the verdict to $500, from which order, plaintiff having consented, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
LOVELY, J.2
Action for injuries sustained by plaintiff while working as a common laborer on defendant’s road. Plaintiff had a verdict. Upon motion for a new trial the same was denied, conditioned upon the reduction of the recovery, to which he consented. Thereupon defendant appeals to this court.
At a place where defendant’s road crossed a ravine on a trestle, the same was filled in by substituting an embankment of earth to support the track in place of the trestle. This undertaking seems to have been carried out as a part of the work of surfacing a considerable portion of the road, wherein a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Johnson v. St. Paul & Duluth RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Lavallee v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Lindvall v. WoodsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Olson v. McMullenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885
- Brown v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Foley v. Cudahy Packing Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1903
- Jemming v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Anderson v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
- Boyer v. Eastern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
- Syverson v. NelsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1955
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