Burho v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $40,000 for personal injury. The facts and the substance of tbe complaint and answer are stated in tbe opinion. Tbe reply denied that tbe accident was due to plaintiff’s failure to exercise proper care for bis •own safety or that plaintiff assumed the danger of such an accident.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $40,000 for personal injury. The facts and the substance of tbe complaint and answer are stated in tbe opinion. Tbe reply denied that tbe accident was due to plaintiff’s failure to exercise proper care for bis •own safety or that plaintiff assumed the danger of such an accident. The case was tried before Dickson, J., who denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict of $24,750 in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding tbe verdict or for a new…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Action to recover damages for personal injuries received through the negligence of the defendant. the verdict was for plaintiff, and defendant appeals from an order denying its motion for judgment in its favor, or, in case of a denial thereof, for a new trial.
Plaintiff alleged that on April 14, 1911, be as brakeman, was in the employ of the defendant, a railway company engaged in interstate commerce. On that day be was injured on the defendant’s tracks at Waseca, Minnesota, while at work upon one of its interstate commerce freight trains under these alleged circumstances, in brief: As…
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