Hodge v. Eastern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Pine county, Crosby, J., denying a motion for a new trial, after a verdict of $16,200 for plaintiff.
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Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Pine county, Crosby, J., denying a motion for a new trial, after a verdict of $16,200 for plaintiff. The fifth assignment of error was that the court erred in denying defendant’s motion to dismiss the action at the end of plaintiff’s case, because there was no evidence tending to show that any property described in the complaint had been wrongfully converted by defendant. ’The seventh assignment of error was that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict for defendant, for the reason stated in the fifth assignment and because…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Action for conversion of iron rails and other railway material, instituted by a receiver of a railway corporation, appointed under G-. S. 1894, c. 76, § 5902, against defendant (another railway corporation), in which the plaintiff recovered a verdict. There are quite a number of assignments of error, but several need no particular consideration.
1. The first three relate to the validity of a money judgment rendered in another action, wherein the town of Hinckley was plaintiff and judgment creditor, and the corporation of which this plaintiff is receiver was the defendant and judgment debtor,…
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