Monteith v. Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway Co.

This was a suit instituted by plaintiff, tbe widow of an *422employee of tbe defendant company, to recover damages for the death of her husband alleged to have been occasioned through the negligence of the defendant. Trial was had at the September term of the district court, 1896, and the verdict of the jury was in favor of plaintiff. Thereupon the defendant interposed a motion to set aside the verdict and to grant a new trial, for the reason that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict; that the verdict was unsupported by the evidence; that it was given under the influence of…