Nelson v. Duluth Street Railway Co.

The only question involved is whether or not the damages as found by the jury are excessive. On January 6, 1927, a train of the defendant Great Northern Railway Company collided with a street car of the defendant Duluth Street Railway Company at North Twenty-first street crossing in the city of Superior. The train at the time was by agreement operating over the tracks of the defendant Northern Pacific Railway Company. Alice Elvira Nelson, a daughter of the plaintiff, was a passenger on the street car and was instantly killed at the time of the collision. Her father, the plaintiff, was the…