Neubauer v. Northern Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the district court for Ramsey county, Iverr, J., entered upon an order denying its motion to set aside a verdict for plaintiff and for a new trial. Upon the trial an employé of an ice company testified as an expert that the points of the ice* tongs mentioned in the opinion were too short.
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
The plaintiff was a servant of defendant, employed by it in its warehouse, and occasionally in “icing” its refrigerator cars. Its ice house was beside the track. At one side of the ice house was a shaft or tower in which the ice was raised. It was then pulled out on a slide or skid to a platform, and there chopped into smaller pieces. These pieces were then conveyed on another skid into the car. The platform was about 11 feet above the ground, and there were no guards or rails around it. On the day in question the plaintiff was engaged in pulling the ice out of the shaft upon the platform,…
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