Hendrickson v. Great Northern Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Helen Hendrickson, from an order of the District Court of Meeker County, Powers, J., made September 5, 1891, refusing her motion for a new trial. Michael Hendrickson was killed about three o’clock in the afternoon of June 30, 1890, at King’s Crossing, in Meeker County, on the Great Northern Railway. He was struck by the east coming passenger train while crossing the railway track with team and empty lumber wagon. The plaintiff is his widow.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Helen Hendrickson, from an order of the District Court of Meeker County, Powers, J., made September 5, 1891, refusing her motion for a new trial. Michael Hendrickson was killed about three o’clock in the afternoon of June 30, 1890, at King’s Crossing, in Meeker County, on the Great Northern Railway. He was struck by the east coming passenger train while crossing the railway track with team and empty lumber wagon. The plaintiff is his widow. She was on December 17, 1890, appointed administratrix of his estate, and brought this action to recover $10,000 damages for the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
In this action defendant corporation was charged with having so carelessly and negligently run and operated one of its trains when crossing a public highway as to have brought it in collision with plaintiff’s intestate, thereby killing him instantly. The court below ordered and the jury returned a verdict for defendant upon all of the testimony, and plaintiff appeals from an order denying her motion for a new trial. The crossing, which seems to have been an exceedingly dangerous one, known as “King’s Crossing,” was about midway between the stations of Darwin and Dassel, some six miles apart,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ernst v. . Hudson River Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1866
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