Missouri Pac. Ry. Co. v. Oleson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Thos. C. Munger, Judge. Action by Ole Oleson against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and-defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The defendant below, the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, specifies two errors in this case, that the court denied its motion at the close of the trial to direct a verdict in its favor, and that after the evidence was closed, and after the defendant had made its motion for a directed verdict the court permitted counsel to recall the plaintiff and to introduce his testimony relative to the location of the leaning post over which he had testified that he feU.
In his'complaint the plaintiff alleged that he stumbled, fell, and broke his leg over a leaning post placed by…
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