Elkins v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

1 Reported in 270 N.W. 914. Appeal from an order denying defendants' alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

Action to recover damages for wrongful death of plaintiff's decedent, Louis Gilbert Kamrow, arising out of a head-on collision between Kamrow's 1924 Model T Ford coupé and a streetcar owned by the defendant corporation, which at the time of the accident was being operated by the codefendant here, C. Ringness. The jury returned a verdict of $1,000 for the plaintiff.

The accident occurred on Glenwood avenue in Minneapolis. At and near the point of…