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Carney v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided May 25, 1891PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Rock county, Perkins, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after verdict of $ 1,990 for plaintiff.

1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.

This action is for the recovery of damages for the alleged negligence of the defendant in operating two locomotives drawing a regular passenger train on the defendant’s road, and by which .the plaintiff’s intestate was struck as he was crossing the track. The negligence alleged consisted in running the train over a highway crossing, where the accident occurred, at a dangerous rate of speed, —30 miles an hour, — without giving any signal of its approach by bell or whistle, and by allowing the track to be obscured from the view of persons approaching the crossing by warehouses erected beside…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Schneider v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
  2. Olson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
  3. Walker v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
  4. Wardner v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
  5. Studley v. St. Paul & Duluth R. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892

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