Rosted v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $26,000 damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Brill, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor, of plaintiff for $2,500. A motion for judgment in favor of defendant notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial, was denied; and from a judgment entered in pursuance of the .verdict, defendant appealed.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $26,000 damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Brill, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor, of plaintiff for $2,500. A motion for judgment in favor of defendant notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial, was denied; and from a judgment entered in pursuance of the .verdict, defendant appealed. Evidence of the conversation with the conductor after the trip on the branch line was not competent to prove that he did not give notice of the trip. A conductor is not authorized to admit the guilt of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
In the winter of 1897 plaintiff was the foreman of a large farm near Kelso, North Dakota. On February 9 of that year he loaded a car load of his employer’s stock into one of defendant’s cars at Kelso, shipped the stock to South St. Paul, in this state, and, under the contract of shipment, rode in the caboose of the freight train to look after the stock. When the train arrived at Moorhead, the crew were ordered to take the engine, caboose, and a gang of shovelers, and go up on a branch line to relieve another train that was snowbound at a place five miles distant from Moorhead. Plaintiff…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Mobile & Montgomery Rail Road v. AshcraftSupreme Court of Alabama · 1872
- Southerland v. Wilmington & Weldon RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad v. MaloySupreme Court of Georgia · 1887
- Halverson v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
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- Benson v. Northland Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1937
- Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. HarrisCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1915
- Pullen v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1929
- Willett v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
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