Bain v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. ViNje, Circuit Judge. Tbe defendant maintained at Dulutb a covered dock or-warehouse extending out easterly into tbe waters of tbe bay.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. ViNje, Circuit Judge. Tbe defendant maintained at Dulutb a covered dock or-warehouse extending out easterly into tbe waters of tbe bay. Same was about 1,000 feet long east and west, tbe north side fronting upon a slip in wbicb vessels entered, and along tbe south side were maintained two-tracks, onto wbicb cars were run for the purpose of delivering freight into the warehouse-to be transferred to boats, or receiving freight from the warehouse. The floor of warehouse was about four feet above-these tracks, and the same…
1Opinion of the Court
Don&n, J.
This cause of action depends for its existence ■upon statutes of Minnesota, certainly upon sec. 5913, Gen. Stats. Minn. 1894, which covers tbe same general field, and in general effect is tbe same as sec. 4255, Stats. 1898, both being in adoption of tbe English legislation of 1846 known as “Lord Campbell’s Act” (9 & 10 Viet. 93) ; tbe Minnesota statute, however, by construction, conferring tbe right of recovery although tbe beneficiary be an alien. Renlund v. Commodore M. Co. (Minn.) 93 N. W. 1057. Possibly tbe right of action also depends on see. 2701, Gen. Stats. Minn. 1894,…
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