Young v. Great Northern Railway Co.

This is an appeal from an order of tbe court below refusing to grant plaintiff’s motion for a new trial upon tbe ground, as set forth in tbe motion, that tbe damages as found by tbe verdict were inadequate and insufficient.

Tbe facts were that tbe plaintiff and bis “partner” were trespassing upon one of defendant’s freight trains. They bad beaten their way from St. Paul and Minneapolis, upon two different trains, as far as Sauk Center, about one hundred twenty miles, and were going west. Early in tbe morning, at Sauk Center, they stowed themselves into a freight car loaded with steel rails. A…