Legal Opinion
Dellwo v. Pearson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided March 3, 1961No. 38,034, 38,035PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Loevinger, Justice.
This case arises out of a personal injury to Jeanette E. Dellwo, one of the plaintiffs. She and her husband, the other plaintiff, were fishing on one of Minnesota’s numerous and beautiful lakes by trolling at a low speed with about 40 to 50 feet of line trailing behind the boat. Defendant, a 12-year-old boy, operating a boat with an outboard motor, crossed behind plaintiffs’ boat. Just at this time Mrs. Dellwo felt a jerk on her line which suddenly was pulled out very rapidly. The line was knotted to the spool of the reel so that when it had run out the fishing rod was…
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