Johnson v. Northern Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. and the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Co., from an order of the district court for St. Louis county, Stearns, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after verdict of $1,500 for plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries received by plaintiff, a passenger in a train of the former company, in a collision of that train with a train of the latter company.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The plaintiff was injured by an accident on a passenger train, which resulted from the negligence of the defendants, and recovered a verdict of $1,500. The car in which he was riding at the time was thrown off the track and overturned, and the evidence tends to prove that he received various bruises and injuries, and a severe shock to his nervous system. The circumstances of the. accident and the liability of the defendants for some damages are admitted. Two errors as signed relate to the admissibility of certain evidence of a medical expert, and the amount of the verdict, which is claimed to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- A. T. & S. F. Rld. v. FrazierSupreme Court of Kansas · 1882
- Inhabitants of Ashland v. Inhabitants of MarlboroughMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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- Cooper v. St. Paul City Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
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