Krahn v. J. L. Owens Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $20,150 for injury received by plaintiff while working upon a bean and pea thresher manufactured by defendant. The answer alleged that, if plaintiff was injured, his injuries were caused by his own contributory negligence and not by the negligence of defendant.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $20,150 for injury received by plaintiff while working upon a bean and pea thresher manufactured by defendant. The answer alleged that, if plaintiff was injured, his injuries were caused by his own contributory negligence and not by the negligence of defendant. The case was tried before Dickinson, J., who, when plaintiff rested, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the action and at the close of the trial defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict of $15,000 in favor of plaintiff. From an order…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
1. Defendant manufactures self-feeding bean and pea threshers. On August 8, 1910, it sold one of its outfits to Murphy & Hughes, in Wisconsin. The separator of this thresher looks much like the separator of an ordinary grain thresher and operates upon similar principles. It is fed at the front. The feed table stands four feet seven inches from the ground. Just back of the feed table is a raised hood or cap. Within this are two 'knife-cylinders with interlocking knives. Just back of this hood or cap and directly above the rear part of the cylinder is a removable board, nine inches wide,…
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- Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. DeselmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Schubert v. J. R. Clark Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
- Kuelling v. Roderick Lean Manufacturing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Watson v. Augusta Brewing Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1905
- Hasbrouck v. Armour & Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
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