Peery v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
After the former appeal, reported in 123 Minn. 264, 143 N. W. 724, the case was tried before Kelly, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $12,000. Defendant’s motion for judgment in its favor notwithstanding the verdict was denied. Its motion for a new trial was denied, if plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict from $12,000 to $9,000. Erom that order defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtPhilip E. Brown, J.
In this, an action for personal injuries based upon the Federal Employer’s Liability Act, plaintiff had a verdict. Defendant appealed from an order denying its alternative motion.
*1201. The ease was here on plaintiff’s appeal, reported in 123 Minn. 264, 143 N. W. 724, where the facts are stated and it was held, upon substantially the same evidence presented by the present record, that the Federal act applied, or at least that its applicability should have been submitted to the jury; the only new fact brought out on the second trial in this connection being that plaintiff, a freight conductor, at…
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Illinois Central Railroad v. BehrensSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Cousins v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Savino v. Griffin Wheel Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1912
- Peery v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
3Cited by3 opinions
- Bullock v. New York Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1930
- Hork v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1935
- State ex rel. Peery v. District CourtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1918