Levasseur v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying plaintiff’s motion to vacate a directed verdict for defendant and grant a new trial.

In Minneapolis, on the afternoon of November 25, 1944, defendant’s northbound streetcar (hereinafter called car No. 1) stopped on the near side of the intersection of Fourth avenue south' and Seventh street to permit plaintiff, a passenger, to alight therefrom. Following on the same track was another northbound streetcar (hereinafter called car No. 2), which stopped ten feet to the rear of car No. 1. Plaintiff left car No. 1 by the rear exit, and, instead of…