Purcell v. St. Paul City Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court, Ramsey County, Otis, J., made May 18, 1891, overruling a demurrer to the complaint.
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Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court, Ramsey County, Otis, J., made May 18, 1891, overruling a demurrer to the complaint. The complaint states, among other things, that the St. Paul City Railway Company is a corporation, and on December 1, 1890, owned and t/opérated a horse car railway along Jackson street, and a cable-line y&long Seventh street; that the two lines cross each other airight angles at the intersection of those streets; that plaintiff was on that day a passenger on the Jackson street line, and pregnant, but in good. health, and of ordinary strength of body and…
1Opinion of the CourtGil pillan, C. J.
Appeal from an order overruling a general demurrer to the complaint. From the complaint it appears that the plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant’s cars running upon its line on Jackson street, St. Paul; that, when the car reached the intersection of that line with the defendant’s cable-car line running on East Seventh street, the persons in charge of it negligently attempted to cross, and did cross, the cable line in front of a then near and rapidly approaching cable' traiff thereon ;| that a collision seemed so imminent, and was so nearly caused, that the incident and attending…
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