National Biscuit Co. v. Nolan
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries, in which the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant in error, the plaintiff below, for the sum of $3,500. On motion for new trial, the court conditioned the overruling thereof on the remission of $1,000 of the amount, which was-accepted by the defendant in error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries, in which the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant in error, the plaintiff below, for the sum of $3,500. On motion for new trial, the court conditioned the overruling thereof on the remission of $1,000 of the amount, which was-accepted by the defendant in error. To reverse the judgment entered thereon, the defendant below prosecutes this writ of error. The plaintiff in error, a corporation, on the 25th day of August, 1902, was-engaged in…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, District Judge
Two preliminary questions are presented by the assignment of errors, which are not unimportant to be settled. One Rothenberger was being examined as a witness by counsel for defendant in error. After merely testifying that he was a general mechanic, employed by the plaintiff in error as its master mechanic to look after the machinery and keep it in running order, counsel for defendant in error asked the following question: “Well, you say you are a machinist; in your opinion, was it machinery that needed to be guarded?” To this question counsel for plaintiff in error objected, on the ground…
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