Legal Opinion

Parshall v. Minneapolis & St. L. Ry. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota

Decided June 28, 1888PublishedCited by 7 opinions

At Law. On motion to set aside verdict of jury. Action by R. P. Parshall against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company for injuries received by a collision of trains. Verdict for plaintiff, and damages assessed at $8,000, which verdict defendant moved to set aside.

1Opinion of the CourtBrewer, J.

This case was tried at the last term of this court, before Judge Nelson and a jury, and a nxotioix for a ixew tidal was argued before me on a bill of exceptions. The case involved the same facts presented in a case just tried at this term, whei’e at a crossing of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway and of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway tivo trains collided, and the plaintiff, a passenger on the Milwaukee train, was injured. I always decline to hear a motion for a new trial in a case tried before another judge, unless the case stands upon some question of law sent by that judge to be…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Thomas F. Maher v. Isthmian Steamship CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1958
  2. St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
  3. Keith Gulbranson v. Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
  4. Armentrout v. Virginian Ry. Co.District Court, S.D. West Virginia · 1947
  5. United States v. PetersonDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1938

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