Amann v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $35,000 for personal injury to the minor plaintiff. The answer alleged that if plaintiff received personal injury the same was due solely to his negligence which was the sole and proximate cause of the injury.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $35,000 for personal injury to the minor plaintiff. The answer alleged that if plaintiff received personal injury the same was due solely to his negligence which was the sole and proximate cause of the injury. The case was tried before Gatlin, J., who when plaintiff rested denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the action and at the close of the testimony its motion for a directed verdict in its favor, and a jury which returned a verdict for $7,500 in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the…
1Opinion of the Court
Dibell, C.
Action by the plaintiff, a minor, to recover damages for an injury sustained by being run over by a train of the defendant as he was attempting to pass between two cars at a street crossing. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals from the order1 denying its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.
1. The plaintiff was injured at a street crossing in New Ulm, while attempting to cross between the cars of a train of the defendant. The train was blocking the crossing. As he was attempting to pass between two cars the train…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Henderson v. St. Paul & Duluth RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
3Cited by1 opinion
- Sikorski v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914