Hoppe v. Peterson

Stone, Justice.

In this action for wrongful death plaintiff had a verdict. Defendants appeal from the order denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding or a new trial.

The decedent, Bernard Hoppe, was fatally injured, either because he walked into a truck driven by defendant Leslie Anderson while in the employ of his codefendants, or because the truck ran against him, on the evening of March 31, 1934. The accident occurred about 10:30 p. m. on East Franklin avenue in Minneapolis. Fourteenth avenue joins East Franklin avenue from the south and, after a right-angled offset, leaves it,…