Hayward v. Knapp
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Winona county, Orosby, J., presiding, (sitting for the judge of the third district,) refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
The plaintiff was owner of a “ brail” of saw-logs, which was moored to the west bank of-the Mississippi river, a few miles above Winona. Defendants, who were ■engaged in running a raft of lumber down the river with a •steamboat, ran into and against the brail, letting plaintiff’s logs loose, so that they floated off and were scattered along the river and its shores and sloughs. For the damage thereby occasioned to him plaintiff brings this action.
Upon the trial it was ordered by the court that the jury take a view of the place where the collision occurred, that they be conducted thither in a…
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