Jenkins v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $75,000 for injury received at a highway crossing over defendant’s railway. The answer alleged that, if plaintiff was injured by being struck by a train, his injuries were caused by his neglect to observe any care whatsoever and such negligence was the direct cause of any injury received.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $75,000 for injury received at a highway crossing over defendant’s railway. The answer alleged that, if plaintiff was injured by being struck by a train, his injuries were caused by his neglect to observe any care whatsoever and such negligence was the direct cause of any injury received. The case was tried before Johnson, J., who denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $30,316.67 in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment nothwithstanding the verdict…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilip E. Brown, J.
Plaintiff had a verdict for $30,316.67, subsequently reduced to $25,000 in an action to recover damages resulting from a highway-crossing collision, alleged to have occurred through defendant’s negligence in operating, at excessive speed and without giving warning signals of approach, a passenger train with no lights either on engine or in coaches. The case comes here on defendant’s appeal from an order denying its motion for judgment or a new trial.
The accident occurred at Perry, Iowa, a city with upwards of *3705,000 inhabitants, on October 5, 1912. Defendant’s line passed through there in a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Carlson v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Jones v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- Fryklund v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
- Beanstrom v. Northern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- Schmidt v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Sampson v. ChannellCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1940
- Anderson v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- Turner v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1925
- Dahlquist v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1950
- Perkins v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1924
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