Sours v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $15,000 damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Otis, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $7,500. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This is a second appeal in a personal injury case. See 81 Minn. 337, 84 N. W. 114. A few of the facts were there stated, and, among others, that the accident occurred about dark, and that plaintiff alleged a usage or custom of placing a lantern upon the front end of a “cut” of caboose cars as they were dropped down into and through the “gravity” yard in which he was injured.
When the case was again brought to trial before a jury, it was conceded that when the accident happened it was not dark enough to prevent the plaintiff from seeing the approaching cabooses as they came down the yard, nor…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Jordan v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
- Sours v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- Roskoyek v. St. Paul & Duluth RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1899
- Stacklie v. St. Paul & Duluth RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1898
3Cited by7 opinions
- Neary v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1908
- Floan v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
- Torkelson v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1912
- Keeler v. New York CentralAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
- Sours v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
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