Carroll v. Minnesota Valley Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff was an employee of the N. W. U. Packet Company, on the steamboat Mollie Mohler, which was engaged in carrying passengers and freight on the Minnesota river from Belle Plaine, where it connected with defendant’s railroad, to Mankato and intermediate points.
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The plaintiff was an employee of the N. W. U. Packet Company, on the steamboat Mollie Mohler, which was engaged in carrying passengers and freight on the Minnesota river from Belle Plaine, where it connected with defendant’s railroad, to Mankato and intermediate points. About the 15th- of June, 1867, the water in the river being high, the steamboat was moored alongside a branch track of the defendant’s road at Belle Plaine, to receive and discharge passengers and freight; for that purpose its staging or landing plank was run. out over the railroad track. A car was standing on the track on…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Gowrt
Berry, J
This action was before this Court on a former occasion, when a new trial was granted, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence, in that it appeared that the plaintiff himself contributed by his own negligence to the injury complained of. The case is reported in 13 Mimi. 30. Upon the new trial substantially the same testimony was introduced as upon the first trial, with some additional testimony having a bearing upon the question of the plaintiff’s negligence. The plaintiff obtained a verdict for $1500, which the defendant insists cannot be sustained, because it…
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