State v. Gladson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, M. L. Gladson, from a judgment of the District Court of Pine County, F. M. Crosby, J., entered January 16, 1894. Defendant was a locomotive engineer engaged with an engine in hauling the afternoon through passenger train between St. Paul and Duluth. On July 22, 1893, he run his train as usual through the village of Pine City, county seat of Pine County, at about four o’clock in the afternoon without stopping.
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Appeal by defendant, M. L. Gladson, from a judgment of the District Court of Pine County, F. M. Crosby, J., entered January 16, 1894. Defendant was a locomotive engineer engaged with an engine in hauling the afternoon through passenger train between St. Paul and Duluth. On July 22, 1893, he run his train as usual through the village of Pine City, county seat of Pine County, at about four o’clock in the afternoon without stopping. Complaint was made before a Justice of the Peace and he was arrested, tried and convicted. He appealed to the District Court of Pine County where he was again tried,…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
Pine City is a village of 800 inhabitants, the county seat of Pine county, and a station on the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad. The defendant was an engineer on a passenger train on said railroad, and was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced in Justice Court for failing to stop his train at Pine City. He appealed to the District Court, and was there again convicted and sentenced, and appeals to this court. The statute under which he was convicted is Laws 1893, ch. 60, which reads as follows:
“All regular passenger trains, run by any common carrier operating a railway in this state, or by any…
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