Legal Opinion
Krause v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided February 16, 1940No. 32,236 to 32,245, incPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Holt, Justice.
About 12:30 a. m. on September 25, 1937, a still, dark night, a 1929 model A Ford coach, carrying six young men, drove into the nineteenth boxcar of a southbound freight train of defendant railway company as it ivas crossing trunk highway No. 99 at the depot across the river from St. Peter, Minnesota. Three of the young-men were killed and two injured. A special administrator of the estate of each of the three who met death was appointed and sued the railway company and the locomotive engineer in charge of the train for wrongful death. The two injured men, by the same attorneys,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Crosby v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1932
- Licha v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1937
- Munkel v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1938
- Everett v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
- Sullivan v. BooneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1939
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Roth v. SwansonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1944
- Young v. WlazikSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1977
- Rhine v. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1941
- Flagg v. Chicago Great Western Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1944
- Haukom v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1964