Griffin v. Minnesota Transfer Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county by plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of William H. Griffin, deceased, to recover $5,000 for the death of decedent. The case was tried before Kelly, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $4,550. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, X
Plaintiff’s intestate was killed March 16, 1903, while switching loaded freight cars from incoming and outgoing trains in defendant’s yards at the Minnesota Transfer, which contains a large number of tracks, and each yard has its own lead track, with numerous switch tracks branching off first at an angle and then running parallel. Deceased was working with a crew of men under a foreman in the “B” yard, where the tracks were on a slight grade to the north. The crew consisted of the foreman, fireman, engineer of the switching engine, and two switchmen, one of whom was Griffin, the…
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