Jones v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Waseca county against Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company and Great Northern Railway Company to recover $2,042 for the loss of cattle which perished in a blizzard while in transit over the line of the Great Northern Company.
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Action in the district court for Waseca county against Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company and Great Northern Railway Company to recover $2,042 for the loss of cattle which perished in a blizzard while in transit over the line of the Great Northern Company. The case was tried before Buckham, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $1,200. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant Great Northern Railway Company appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On March 11, 1902, the Great Northern Railway Company, hereafter designated as the defendant, received at the Minnesota transfer, in St. Paul, two carloads of cattle, consisting of one hundred twenty calves, yearlings, and two-year olds, to be transported and delivered to the plaintiffs at Hinsdale, Montana. On March 14 the train of which the two cars were a part reached a point thirty miles west of Minot, North Dakota, which is the end of a division of the defendant’s railway, where it was caught in a fierce blizzard, and a part thereof, including the two cars containing the plaintiff’s…
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