Harmon v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Two actions in the district court for Redwood county to recover $1,995 and $1,950 damages respectively for personal injuries sustained while attempting to cross a railroad track. Husband and wife brought separate actions which by consent were tried together before Olsen, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of Horace L. Harmon for $750 and a verdict in favor of Josephine Harmon for $250. From an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The appeal in this case was taken from the order of the trial court denying defendant’s motion for a new trial in two actions tried together. The one was brought by the husband and the other by the wife. They received damages for injuries caused by the negligence of the defendant, as the jury found, while they were undertaking to cross defendant’s tracks. The husband was driving a gentle farm team hitched to an ordinary top buggy. The wife sat beside him. In entering the city the public road which they were using crossed the east end of defendant’s switchyard and involved passing two…
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