Mlenek v. Fleming

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court of Steele county denying defendants’ alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

Plaintiff sued defendants as trustees of the estate of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, to recover for personal injuries sustained by him and for damage to his automobile arising out of a collision with one of defendants’ freight trains. Plaintiff claimed that defendants violated the statute by ■closing á public highway for traffic with their train for a longer period than ten minutes and by failing to…