Beaulieu v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Red Lake county to recover $3,000 for delay in transporting the dead body 'of plaintiff’s child over'-defendant’s road. From an order, Watts, J., overruling its demurrer ■to the amended complaint, defendant appealed..
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Defendant interposed a general demurrer to the complaint in this action, and appealed from an order overruling the same.
The complaint alleges, in substance, that plaintiff’s child, aged three and one-half years, died at Cass Lake, and plaintiff -desired that the body should be buried at Ogahmah. The body was accordingly prepared for burial, and delivered to defendant for shipment to that place. The shipment required a transfer of the casket containing the body at Erskine, where the defendant’s road connects with the Soo Line, over which the plaintiff and the corpse were to reach Ogahmah. The…
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