White v. Minneapolis & Rainy River Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Itasca county to recover $1,795 damages claimed to have been sustained by defendant’s negligence in holding certain goods, consisting of a carload of vegetables, for eight days before shipment and in failing to transport expeditiously plaintiff and some sixty-five men in his employ.
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Action in the district court for Itasca county to recover $1,795 damages claimed to have been sustained by defendant’s negligence in holding certain goods, consisting of a carload of vegetables, for eight days before shipment and in failing to transport expeditiously plaintiff and some sixty-five men in his employ. The answer admitted the receipt of certain property for shipment, but denied that it agreed to ship the same immediately; that whatever delay occurred in shipment was caused by extraordinary circumstances over which it had no control; that a portion of defendant’s line became…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
On November 29, 1905, plaintiff delivered to defendant for carriage a carload of vegetables. The vegetables were in an ordinary box car belonging to a connecting company, and at the time of the delivery were transferred from the tracks of that company to defendant’s yard at Deer River. On the same'day plaintiff had assembled a large crew of men at Deer River, for whom and his general camp supplies he desired passage to a point upon defendant’s line of road where he was about to commence logging operations. About this time a portion of defendant’s track crossing a swamp, or what is known in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brennisen v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
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- Presley Fruit Co. v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1915
- B. Presley Co. v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1912
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hudgins Produce Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
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