Kurstelska v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Winona county by plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of Lorence Kurstelska, deceased, to recover $5,000 for the death of decedent. The case was tried before Snow, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $á,250. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This appeal is from an order denying defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict .in favor of the plaintiff, or for a new trial. The case has been in this court once before. 84 Minn. 415, 87 N. W. 1015.
The plaintiff’s counsel contend that, from the evidence, it appears that the defendants were negligent in three respects. We need to consider but one of these three claims. It stood admitted at the trial that the defendants furnished nothing but pine boards, eight feet in length and seven-eights of an inch thick, for vertical sheathing on the sides of the trench in which the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kurstelska v. JacksonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
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- Kurstelska v. JacksonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904