Hammond v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from order of the district court denying defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

The action was commenced by Fay V. Hammond for personal injury, and by Harry P. Hammond, her husband, for derivative damages, resulting from an accident wherein the car which she was driving was struck from behind on October 25, 1956, at about 5 p. m., by a bus owned by defendant bus company and driven by defendant Henry N. Williams, Jr.

According to plaintiff driver, she was proceeding south across the Third Avenue bridge in Minneapolis.…