Butler v. St. Paul & Duluth Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Chas. E. Otis, J., made March 8, 1894,. granting plaintiff, Myron J. Butler, a new trial after verdict against him.
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Appeal by defendant, St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Chas. E. Otis, J., made March 8, 1894,. granting plaintiff, Myron J. Butler, a new trial after verdict against him. The plaintiff, a carpenter sixty four years old living at Lake Shore station on defendant’s railroad, took a passenger train at half past two o’clock in the afternoon December 14, 1892, at White Bear Lake to ride to his home station a half mile distant. He bought no ticket. The company did not sell tickets to that station. He paid no fare. He did not see the conductor…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This was an action to recover for personal inj uries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant’s servants in the management of a train upon which plaintiff was a passenger.
The plaintiff entered the train at White Bear station, for the purpose of going to Lake Shore, a half mile distant, which was merely a flag or signal station.
The plaintiff’s testimony tended to prove that he notified the brakeman that he desired to get off at Lake Shore station; that the brakeman gave him to understand that the train would be stopped to let him off; that, as the train approached the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Jones v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Sahlgaard v. St. Paul City Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
3Cited by10 opinions
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- Street v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Holden v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- Leonczak v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1924
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