Emery v. Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Juliette A. Emery, Administratrix of the estate of Walter R. Morton, deceased, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, William Lochren, J., made February 16, 1893, denying her motion for a new trial.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Juliette A. Emery, Administratrix of the estate of Walter R. Morton, deceased, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, William Lochren, J., made February 16, 1893, denying her motion for a new trial. Action against the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, a corporation, for negligence in so constructing and maintaining a window in its exposition building that plaintiff’s intestate, Walter R. Morton, on September 5, 1891, fell out upon the pavement below and was killed. When plaintiff’s evidence was all given, the court on defendant’s motion dismissed the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Defendant is a corporation owning a large building in the city of Minneapolis, in which, it holds public expositions annually, an admission fee being charged each visitor. At one corner, as part of the structure, is a tower with several stories or floors, thus mailing a number of small rooms, one above another, through which, in the center of the tower, is an elevator, inclosed or running in a wire netting. The floor of one of these rooms is midway between the second and third floors — 20 feet apart — of the main building. This room is not accessible by elevator, there being no door in the…
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