Schmidt v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Anoka county to recover $25,000 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Giddings, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $5,000. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
In an action to recover damages received by the plaintiff in a collision with one of the defendant’s trains, he obtained a verdict, and, defendant’s motion for a new trial being denied, an appeal has been taken to this court.
The collision was about ten .o’clock a. m., February 20, 1899, at a crossing of a street in the village of Osseo, just west of defendant’s station house. The plaintiff, with his wife, was riding in a top buggy, the top being down, driving a single horse. The street crosses the railway at an angle of about thirty-three degrees. The plaintiff was driving in a northwesterly…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lammers v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
3Cited by8 opinions
- Carlson v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Jenkins v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- McCarty v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1923
- Greenwood v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Regali v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
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