Allen v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Goodhue county to recover $15,000 for personal injuries. The answer alleged that plaintiff carelessly and negligently moved against and. collided with defendant’s automobile and thereby caused some injury to himself from which he had recovered.
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Action in the district court for Goodhue county to recover $15,000 for personal injuries. The answer alleged that plaintiff carelessly and negligently moved against and. collided with defendant’s automobile and thereby caused some injury to himself from which he had recovered. The case was tried before Johnson, J., who when plaintiff rested denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the action and at the close of the testimony denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $6,000. From an order denying his motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or…
1Opinion of the CourtDibell, J.
Action for personal injuries. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals from the order denying its alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.
1. The plaintiff on the night of February 4, 1918, while he was walking home, came into collision with the defendant’s auto on one of the streets of Red Wing and was injured. He was walking on the easterly side of West avenue going in a southerly direction, and was approaching an intersection of streets which is called in the evidence the “square.” From this square streets radiated in five directions sufficiently accurately stated…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Slater v. Advance Thresher Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
3Cited by6 opinions
- State v. GoldstoneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- Kmetz v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1962
- Quinn v. HeidmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1923
- Bolster v. CooperSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1933
- Kinnonen v. AdolphsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1927
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