Wiita v. Interstate Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $50,000 damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Cant, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $15,000. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ELLIOTT. J.
The respondent, Niko Wiita, while in the employ of the Interstate Iron Company, working as a miner in the Lincoln mine, was injured by the explosion of a charge of dynamite, and in an action for damages, founded upon the alleged .negligence of the company in furnishing him with defective fuse, recovered a verdict for $15,000. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, the defendant appealed to this court. Numerous questions are raised by the assignments of error, but the principal stress , is laid upon the claim that the evidence is…
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