Olson v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Ole Olson Hag, deceased, brought this action in the district court for Grant county, to recover $5,000 damages occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of a snow-plough, resulting in the killing of Hag. The action was tried before Baxter, J., and a jury, and plaintiff had a verdict of $4,000. Defendants appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The plaintiff’s intestate was one of a gang of section-men employed by defendant on the line of its road, under the direction of a foreman who had charge of the men on the particular section where he was killed by a snow-plough, while engaged with others with a hand-car on the track. They appear to have been engaged in their ordinary work under the direction of the foreman, who was present with them, and who was also killed by the same accident. They had been shovelling snow, and were at the time returning to the section-house with the car, in the midst of a severe storm of snow and wind, in…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Slater v. . JewettNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Atlas Engine Works v. RandallIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Cook v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1885
- Capper v. Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. WachterCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1883
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Lindvall v. WoodsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Ell v. Northern Pacific RailroadNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1891
- Kansas & A. V. Ry. Co. v. DyeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
- Blomquist v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- Jacobson v. CHICAGO, M., ST. P. & PR CO.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
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