Minneapolis General Electric Co. v. Cronon
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
The writ of error is to have reviewed the judgment of the Circuit Court in awarding defendant in error $3,500 damages, resulting from the death of her husband, James E. Cronon.
About 6 o’clock a. m. on May 24, 1906, the deceased discovered smoke coming from the blacksmith shop of one Victor Nordloff, on Central avenue, in the city of Minneapolis, Minn. This shop was a small frame building of one room, one story in height, standing about 37 feet from the residence of the deceased. Finding the shop locked, Cronon, thrust his hand through a broken pane of glass in the…
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