Viou v. Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Carlton county to recover $21,700 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Dibell, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $12,500. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and granting a motion for a new trial unless plaintiff consented to reduce the verdict to $8,500, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The plaintiff and respondent was a foreman in a sawmill of the defendant and appellant. Certain slabs and certain board ends were conveyed to different yards east of the mill by means of horse cars drawn over iron rails laid for that purpose. The track over which the cars passed crossed a small ravine over which was a narrow bridge on a sharp curve. A switch was placed on this bridge so that tram cars carrying slabs might follow one curve to the yard where they were to be deposited, and so that on another curve the board ends might be carried to the other yard where they were to be deposited.…
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