Quirk v. Consumers Power Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $50,000 for personal injury received while in the employ of defendant. The ease was tried before Kelly, J., who denied defendant’s motions for dismissal of the action and for a directed verdict in its favor, and a jury which returned a verdict of $10,000. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Per curiam
Plaintiff recovered a verdict of $10,000. Defendant appeals from an order denying its motion in the alternative for judgment notwithstanding .the verdict or for a new trial.
Plaintiff received serious personal injuries from an electric current, while he was engaged in working in the vicinity of heavily charged wires in the “pent house” of defendant on top of its building on Third street in St. Paul. Defendant claims that it was not negligent, that plaintiff was, and that he assumed the risk. These issues were the vital ones on the trial below, and were closely contested. We think they were for…
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