Legal Opinion

Galloway v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co.

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided January 30, 1894No. 8526PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Appeal by defendant, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, John W. Willis, J., made August 22, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial.

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.

This was an action for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff by being struck by a mail bag thrown by a United States mail agent from a mail car belonging to the defendant *347on one of its passenger trains at tbe station on its road at Durand, Wis. At this station the railway track runs north and south, and the depot and platform adjoin it on the west. The platform is of the width of twelve feet on all sides of the depot, and, of the width of eight feet, extends along the track in two wings, — one to the south about seventy five feet, and one to the north about one hundred feet, to the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Carpenter v. . Boston and Albany R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1884
  2. Snow v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
  2. Forrester v. Southern Pacific Co.Nevada Supreme Court · 1913
  3. Martin v. HickenlooperUtah Supreme Court · 1936
  4. Benson v. Northland Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1937
  5. Gillespie v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1913

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