Ingalls v. Adams Express Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action to recover $2,000 for personal injuries, brought in the district court for Mower county, and tried before Farmer, J., who ordered a dismissal at the close of plaintiff’s'case. The defendant appeals from an order granting a new trial. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant’s truck by which plaintiff was injured was, at the time of the injury, making a transfer of goods between trains on opposite sides of the railway platform at the station.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
At the time of the injury complained of, the plaintiff was chief of police of the city of Austin, and was in the habit of visiting the railway station daily at or about the time of the arrival and departure of trains, when a considerable number of persons would naturally congregate there. We are not prepared to say *129that his duty as a police officer did not justify his presence there. But, considering the public' or quasi public nature of the depot platform on which he was standing when hurt, he must be treated as there by the license and permission of the railway company, and the decision of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Barry v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1883
- Corrigan v. Union Sugar RefineryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
3Cited by4 opinions
- Meiers v. Fred Koch BreweryNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
- Klugherz v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
- Roadman v. C. E. Johnson Motor SalesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1941
- Hunter v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1930