Anderson v. Wormser
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $3,000 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Molyneaux, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of defendant. From an order granting plaintiff’s motion for a new trial on the sole ground of errors of law, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Dibell, C.
This is an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a passenger elevator of the defendant. There was a verdict for the defendant. The court granted a new trial. The defendant appeals.
The plaintiff’s claim is that he went from his office on the third floor to the elevator, and stepped in, when, seeing someone about to enter his office, he started out and was caught and injured by the operator negligently starting the elevator. The defendant’s claim is that the elevator had started down when the plaintiff came from his office, that the operator stopped the…
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