Molden v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.

The appeal is from an order denying defendant’s motion in the alternative for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

The action was to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Lewis Iverson, alleged to have been due to the negligence of defendant causing one of its passenger trains to collide with the automobile in which he was riding, the car being driven by its owner, Ed Iverson, a brother of Lewis. The place of the fatal collision was where Central avenue in the village of Brooten is crossed by the main track of defendant’s railroad, and occurred at 2:08 p. m. on August…