Thompson v. Northwestern Guaranty Loan Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Laura E. Thompson, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Frederick Hooker, J., made April 6, 1893, granting a new trial. On March 16,1892, plaintiff, a married woman forty five years old, was injured in the ground floor of the Guaranty Loan Building in Minneapolis.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Laura E. Thompson, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Frederick Hooker, J., made April 6, 1893, granting a new trial. On March 16,1892, plaintiff, a married woman forty five years old, was injured in the ground floor of the Guaranty Loan Building in Minneapolis. A glass plate seven inches square in this floor slipped out of its place when she stepped upon its edge and her left foot went through the hole and she fell and received serious injury. She brought this action against the owner, the Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company, to recover damages. She…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
The action of the court below in granting a new trial was fairly within its discretion, and, following the rule laid down in Hicks v. Stone, 13 Minn. 434, (Gil. 398,) the order granting a new trial is affirmed.
(Opinion published 57 N. W. Rep. 223.)
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- Thompson v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
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