McCormick v. Johnson Pure Milk Co.

Plaintiff appeals from an order denying a new trial after a directed verdict for defendant Johnson Pure Milk Company.

Action brought by the father in behalf of his minor son, Sidney McCormick, 11 years old, to recover damages from respondent and the Minneapolis Street Railway Company for negligently injuring Sidney under these circumstances disclosed by the evidence:

Sidney and two other boys of about the same age, all on bicycles, at about six p. m. on a July day, were riding abreast going north on the easterly side of Hennepin avenue near Twenty-second street in Minneapolis. According to one…