Sieber v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Clay county by plaintiff as administrator of the estate of Mathias EL Sieber, deceased, to recover $5,000 damages resulting from decedent’s death. The case was tried before Baxter, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $3,000. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
Plaintiff’s intestate had been in the employment of the defendant as locomotive fireman for over three years. During the last five or six months of that time he had been regularly employed in that capacity on the’ train running between Moorhead and Crookston. This is a mixed train, which runs north one day and back the next, except that it is not operated on Sunday. On the morning of Monday, February 1, 1897, this train started on its trip north, and consisted of an engine, tender, nine box cars, and three coaches, including a baggage car. It had a pilot attached to the engine, but no…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Donnelly v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
3Cited by10 opinions
- Anderson v. FieldingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
- State v. CoxSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1927
- Stejskal v. DarrowNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1927
- Swift & Co. v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- M'Coullough v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1913
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