Riley v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $10,000 for personal injuries. The case was tried before McG-ee, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $950. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
This is the second appeal in this action, and for a fuller statement of the case and its facts see 80 Minn. 424, 83 N. W. 376. The gist of the plaintiff’s cause of action is that the defendant negli*97gently ran its street car oyer a street crossing in a populous portion of the city of Minneapolis at a dangerous rate of speed without giving any signal of its approach, whereby the plaintiff was struck by the car and injured. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence on the first trial the court directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed to this court from an order…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Riley v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1967
- Smith v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905