Legal Opinion
Luce v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided October 28, 1938No. 31,769PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Stone, Justice.
Action for wrongful death with verdict for plaintiff. Defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding granted, plaintiff appeals from the judgment.
The case is of the all too usual and tragic kind wherein an autoist is met by a railroad train at a highway crossing. In this case it was defendant’s transcontinental train, the Empire Builder, eastward bound at 50 to 60 miles an hour. Deceased was a traveling-salesman whose territory had long included western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, on the Breckenridge and Willmar divisions of defendant. En route from Minneapolis to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Pokora v. Wabash Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1934
- New York Life Insurance v. GamerSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Lincoln v. FrenchSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Anderson v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- Hawkins v. Kronick Cleaning & Laundry Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1923
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Lee v. MolterSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1949
- Bryant v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1946
- Scott v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1938
- Hicks v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1953
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company v. Lillian R. Strand, as Trustee for the Heirs of Roy B. Strand, DecedentCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
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