Doody v. St. Paul City Railway Co.

Holt, Justice.

The appeal is from an order denying the combined motion of plaintiffs for a new trial after verdicts for defendants. Alice Doody is the wife of Stephen Doody. Each sued defendant for damages, Alice for injuries received in a fall when carried as a passenger by defendant on its streetcar in St. Paul; and Stephen for consequential damages sustained by him on account of his wife’s injuries. Counsel for appellants frankly concede that the question of defendant’s negligence was for the jury, and that the verdicts cannot be disturbed unless the errors assigned upon court’s…