Robinson v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Actiou in tbe district court for Hennepin county to recover $l,00t for negligence of defendant in transporting plaintiffs’ borses iron Minneapolis to Park Eapids. The case was tried before Hale, J., who denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict in its favor, and a jury which returned a verdict for $750 in favor of plaintiffs. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the ver* diet or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Dibble, C.
This action was brought to recover damages to a carload or horses shipped over defendant’s road from Minneapolis to Park Rapids. There was a verdict for the plaintiffs and the defendant appeals from the order denying its alternative motion for judgment or for a new trial.
1. The train containing the car left Minneapolis on November 9, 1911, at eleven p. m. A man was sent by the plaintiffs with the shipment. At Sauk Center where the car was transferred to the Park Rapids train, this man got on the wrong train and went south as the horses went north. Upon arriving at Sebeka, some 22…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Jones v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
- McGrath v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
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- Naumen v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1915