Fieck v. Chicago Great Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for Olmsted county to recover $10,-000 for personal injuries. The negligence alleged in the complaint was that while plaintiff was lifting and removing a motor car from a freight car, the conductor and his fellow servants released their hold on the motor car, and let it drop and fall on plaintiff with great force.
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Action in tbe district court for Olmsted county to recover $10,-000 for personal injuries. The negligence alleged in the complaint was that while plaintiff was lifting and removing a motor car from a freight car, the conductor and his fellow servants released their hold on the motor car, and let it drop and fall on plaintiff with great force. The answer admitted that plaintiff was unloading a gasolene motor hand car when the accident occurred, but alleged that his injuries were received through his own negligence. The reply was a general denial. The case was tried before Snow, J., and a jury…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
This is a personal injury action, in which the plaintiff had a verdict for. $3,150 in the district court of the county of Olmsted, and the defendant made a motion for judgment in its favor notwithstanding the verdict. The trial court made its order denying defendant’s motion, and judgment was entered upon the verdict. The defendant appealed from the judgment. No motion for a new trial was made.
Ten of the seventeen assignments of error relate to alleged errors of the trial court in its instructions to the jury and in refusing to give requested instructions. None of them is relevant on this…
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