Langworthy v. Owens
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $5,000 actual damages and $2,000 punitive damages for personal injuries.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $5,000 actual damages and $2,000 punitive damages for personal injuries. The complaint alleged, among other matters, that defendant let one of his carriages in charge of one Rogers, as driver thereof, to be used in connection with a funeral; that Rogers was known to defendant, and the other liverymen in the city, as a hopeless and confirmed drunkard and to be utterly incompetent, unreliable and unsafe to place in charge of a team of horses, and to be charged with the duty of driving the same through the streets of the city in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On the evening of May 2,'1910, about five o’clock, the plaintiff, while crossing Ninth street on the west side of Broadway street in the city of St. Paul, was struck, thrown down, and injured by a carriage drawn by two horses, then being driven westerly on Ninth, street, by the alleged negligence of the driver.
The plaintiff, claiming that the team and carriage belonged to the defendant, and was being, with his authority, driven by a man named Rogers, who died before the trial, whose negligence caused her injuries, brought this action in the district court of the county of Ramsey to recover…
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