Stewart v. St. Paul City Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $1,000 damages for loss of services and society of plaintiff’s wife.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $1,000 damages for loss of services and society of plaintiff’s wife. The case was tried before Brill, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $250. The court refused to submit to the jury the following special questions: "Did the car from which Mrs. Anna Stewart stepped at the time of this accident go so that the rear end of it was south of the point of the switch? If the jury answer the above question in the affirmative, then it will answer the following question: How many feet south of the point of the…
1Opinion of the Court
B1ITCHELL, J.
The plaintiff is the husband of the plaintiff in the action of Stewart v. St. Paul City By. Co., supra, page 85; and this action was brought to recover damages for loss of the society, services, etc., of his wife, resulting from the same injuries which were the subject of the other action. The opinion in the other case disposes of all the points raised on this appeal, except two.
In this action, as in the former, the chief contest was over the distance and direction of the hole, into which the wife stepped, from the steps of the car from which she alighted. Very soon after the…
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