Hendrickson v. Great Northern Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Great Northern Bailway Company, from a. judgment of the District Court of Meeker County, Poxcers, J., entered-September 14,1892, for plaintiff for $2,251.34 damages and $284.73. costs. Michael Hendrickson was killed June 30, 1890, at a grad© crossing in said county.
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Appeal by defendant, Great Northern Bailway Company, from a. judgment of the District Court of Meeker County, Poxcers, J., entered-September 14,1892, for plaintiff for $2,251.34 damages and $284.73. costs. Michael Hendrickson was killed June 30, 1890, at a grad© crossing in said county. His widow, Helen Hendrickson, was appointed administratrix of his estate, and brought this' action to recover $10,-000 damages under 1878 G. S. ch. 77, § 2, as amended by Laws 1889, ch. 109. At the first trial the court directed a verdict for defendant, on the ground that on the undisputed facts, the deceased…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The only question on this appeal is whether the evidence was such as to require the jury to find that plaintiff’s intestate was guilty of contributory negligence in approaching the crossing where he was killed. We are unable to discover any controlling difference between the evidence now and that contained in the record on the former appeal, 49 Minn. 245, (51 N W. Rep. 1044.) The only important new fact which the evidence on the present appeal tended to establish was that, as a traveler on the highway approached the crossing from the west, there was, a short distance on, the top of the hill,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hendrickson v. Great Northern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
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