Terrill v. Virginia Brewing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county by Richard H. Terrill, as administrator of the estate of Russell Terrill, deceased, to recover $5,000 for the death of his intestate.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county by Richard H. Terrill, as administrator of the estate of Russell Terrill, deceased, to recover $5,000 for the death of his intestate. The case was tried before Hughes, J., who denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the action, and a jury which returned a verdict for $2,000. Defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was denied, and its motion for a new trial was granted unless plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict to $1,500. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and granting a new…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, J.
In the forenoon of December 31, 1912, Russell Terrill, age 12, and ten or twelve other boys, were coasting down hill on a street in the city of Eveleth. This street led from the business portion of the city up a hill to a suburb known as the Adams’ Location. The boys were “hitching bobs,” the operation being thus described by one of them: “One would lay down on his stomach on his sled and put his feet on the other sled, back of the rope on the other sled, and the other boy put his feet against them. One of them lay down and the other sits up, and they put their feet together in the back of…
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