Virtue v. Creamery Package Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Steele county by D. E. Virtue and tbe Owatonna Eanning Mill Company against tbe Creamery Packag'e Manufacturing Company and the Owatonna Manufacturing Company to recover $165,000 actual damages and $60,000 exemplary ■damages, in all $225,000. The case was tried before Childress, J., ■and a jury which rendered a verdict for $57,500 in favor of plaintiffs.
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Action in the district court for Steele county by D. E. Virtue and tbe Owatonna Eanning Mill Company against tbe Creamery Packag'e Manufacturing Company and the Owatonna Manufacturing Company to recover $165,000 actual damages and $60,000 exemplary ■damages, in all $225,000. The case was tried before Childress, J., ■and a jury which rendered a verdict for $57,500 in favor of plaintiffs. From an order-denying their separate motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
Plaintiffs recovered a verdict. Defendants appeal separately from an order denying their alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial. Together they make 334 assignments of error. It is hardly to be expected that we will take .all of these seriously. We will accordingly refer mainly to those .argued in the briefs of counsel.
The issues in the case are simple. The Owatonna Eanning Mill •‘Company was incorporated in the early nineties, and has since been engaged in the manufacture of fanning mills and some other farm machinery. Plaintiff Virtue has been the…
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