Geiger v. Sanitary Farm Dairies
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county, to recover $12,500 for injuries received from one of defendant’s automobile trucks. The answer alleged plaintiff’s contributory negligence.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county, to recover $12,500 for injuries received from one of defendant’s automobile trucks. The answer alleged plaintiff’s contributory negligence. The case was tried before Hanft, J., who when plaintiff rested denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the action and at the close of the testimony denied defendants’ motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $4,500. Defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was denied and their motion for a new trial was denied, provided plaintiff accepted a reduction of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHadlam, J.
1. Plaintiff was injured while walking across Seventh street in St. Paul at about 5:30 a. m. on October 26, 1918. Plaintiff approached Seventh street on Maria avenue from the south. A street car was coming from the east. Plaintiff passed'-in front of the car, and when he was about at the street-car track was struck by something and injured. He thought the street car struck him and sued the street railway company and failed. He then sued these defendants and recovered a verdict. Defendants appeal. The testimony given in this case by the streetcar motorman was that a truck belonging to…
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