Smith v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $7,500 for injuries to plaintiff’s person and property resulting from a collision with defendant’s street car. The case was tried before Simpson, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $1,800. From a judgment entered pursuant to the verdict, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The plaintiff and respondent, together with a companion, were, in the daytime, driving a single horse to a phseton with the top down,, but not unbowed, in an easterly direction, parallel with defendant’s and appellant’s street car track, down Hennepin avenue, in the business district of Minneapolis. The plaintiff turned his horse and vehicle for the purpose of crossing the track on Hennepin avenue, near its intersection, at right angles, with Seventh street, to drive up that street. The vehicle was struck and overthrown by a car going in the *256same direction in which it was being driven.…
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