Benson v. Northland Transportation Co.

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff had a verdict for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by being pushed off a loading platform in defendant’s bus depot in Minneapolis while she was standing on the platform waiting to get on a bus on which she had taken passage to Alexandria, Minnesota.

Defendant claims that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence and is contrary to law. Plaintiff at the time of the accident was 77 years old and walked with the aid of a cane. She and a woman companion, 79 years old, purchased their tickets for the trip from Minneapolis to Alexandria and followed a…