Gisleson v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Freeborn county to recover •$2,200 for the wrongful ejection' of plaintiff from defendant’s passenger train. The case was tried before Kingsley, J., and a .jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $225. From an order denying a motion for a new trial upon condition that plaintiff consent to a reduction of the verdict to $150, which consent was filed, and from a judgment entered upon the reduced verdict, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The only alleged error presented by this appeal arises out of the contention that the damages, as finally reduced by the trial court and accepted by plaintiff, were excessive. The latter, a “stock-man,” had transportation from Minneapolis to his home at Twin Lakes, more than one hundred- miles, over defendant’s railroad. He took the, evening train at Minneapolis on November 16, 1899, and was compelled by the conductor to leave it at Hopkins, a station about ten miles from Minneapolis, on the ground that his transportation contract was not good. In this the conductor was wrong, for it is…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Finch v. Northern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- McLean v. Chicago, St. P., M. & O. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892